everything’s okay if you’re still having fun - by Ava

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I’m pretty sure the key to long-term happiness lies in having fun even when something is tedious and difficult. If you find something fun even when it’s objectively hard, keep going. I had the thought this week that I’d be okay with it everyone I knew suddenly wanted to start matchmaking and writing a novel. I mean, I’m sure I’d feel somewhat perturbed and competitive, but also I’d be like: good luck, you really want to do that to yourself? A romantic profession is sort of like being a romantic in the sense that everyone congratulates you on it and tells you they’re also a romantic but in reality are immediately turned off by the series of actions required to actually act in a romantic way. The idea of it is sexy—I would do anything for love!—and the reality is often boring, punishing and medium-term unrewarding. I just don’t think most people find romantic professions or decisions fun. There’s a lot of things I don’t have the stomach for. (Like properly throwing away your contact lens

Marc Chagall, Paris through the Window, 1913 Three things: Everything, if done long enough and deeply enough, is sometimes tedious. I’m pretty sure the key to long-term happiness lies in having fun even when something is tedious and difficult. If you find something fun even when it’s objectively hard, keep going. I had the thought this week that I’d be okay with it everyone I knew suddenly wanted to start matchmaking and writing a novel. I mean, I’m sure I’d feel somewhat perturbed and competitive, but also I’d be like: good luck, you really want to do that to yourself? A romantic…

everything’s okay if you’re still having fun - by Ava

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