There are Three Types of Fun, Disallowing Type IV, the Feeding of Lemons to Babies

Last week I attended a talk by a nature photographer and he made a passing reference to type 2 fun. Do you know what type 2 fun is? Fun, f-u-n. Who has the responsibility for assigning types to fun? Well, I’ll tell you who. It’s outdoor enthusiasts because outdoor enthusiasts talk about three different types of fun.

There’s type one fun, type two fun, and type three fun. Now type one fun is something that’s fun. It’s simply enjoyable while it’s happening. Okay, say you go off with your family for a weekend to a cabin and you go hiking and you just have a great time, you know, s’mores around the campfire. I can see that one. Yeah. Okay. That’s type one fun.

Type two fun is fun that’s miserable when it’s happening, but it’s fun in retrospect. So maybe you’re running a marathon. Oh, I see. I was thinking like car stuck in the mud, but you get covered in mud, but you laugh about it later. Well, something like that. Yeah, yeah, that’s terrible in the actual experience of it. But once you get through with it, it’s fine. I mean, I used to row in races and when you’re rowing in a race, it feels like just hitting your head with a hammer. And then once you get out of the boat, you know, five minutes later, you’ve got that adrenaline surging, and you’re just like, when can we do this again?

Oh, no.

Okay, now type three fun is? Type three fun is never fun. It’s just bad from beginning to end.

This is lost in Death Valley.

Yeah, yeah, never coming back.

Okay, gotcha.

Fell into a volcano, that kind of thing.

Oh, yeah, I don’t know how much fun that would be.

But, you know, something that’s supposed to be fun, and it’s just a disaster from start to finish.

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