Thoughts on a bumper sticker

This morning I saw a bumper sticker that said, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"  It seemed to be promoting Ben & Jerry's ice cream with the notion that you can decide to only do what you find fun.  Just stop to think for a moment what would happen if people truly adopted this as their guiding principle in life.  It isn't fun to change your baby's diapers.  It isn't fun to bring your baby in for shots. Toilet training, certainly, isn't fun, and neither is doing the laundry it often generates.  Homeowrk is neither fun for kids nor for the parents who usually have to walk them through it. Paying bills is not most people's definition of fun.  Filling out tax forms is far from fun.  The list goes on and on.  Much of what we have to do in life is not fun.  We do it because life is not just about having fun; it is about living up to your responsibilities as an adult, spouse, parent, and citizen.

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