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Daniel Kempner
MDI Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s talk about fun. I mean, I really need to talk about fun. Fun is \u2026 well, it\u2019s a thing you have, right? Not a thing you do. It\u2019s a thing you create rather than purchase by the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s have a little fun tonight, fellas, what do you say?\u201d \u201cDo you like to have fun?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Okay, but what is it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, one division meeting in a Massachusetts state park began with a man bringing a bunch of nylon pantyhose, sliding tennis balls down the legs, and tying a pair around everyone\u2019s waist. As I remember it, we ran around trying \u2013 using only the low-hanging balls for knockers \u2013 to get a soccer ball through the other team\u2019s goal. Was it fun? Hell yes. We laughed our asses off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another meeting we did “haiku,” a bunch of lugs attempting to best each other with their silliest 5-7-5 syllable combinations. Most of them, I remember, ended with “refrigerator.” Did we think that was fun? Damn straight it was. It was talked about for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about a sports night, as my division did once? Or a movie trivia challenge. Maybe even a sort of online Jeopardy game would be cool. Fun? Sure, most of the men thought so. All terrific. These were all enjoyable things to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I\u2019ll tell you the most fun I can ever have at a men\u2019s team meeting, or anywhere else: watching a man make critical changes to save his marriage. Or a man gutting through a tough battle to repair the relationship with one of his children. Seeing a man go deep, deeper than he thought possible, trusting the other men, having them witness for him, guide him, metaphorically cradle him, push him, kick his ass, or whatever it takes to engage his low gears and begin the long, slow grind up his hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see that shift, that motion, to help a man willfully set out towards greatness. Jesus, how could any game or poetry slam or whatever be more fun than that? Do those things make me laugh? No. Not a chance. Are they incredibly exhilarating? Are they thrilling? Does that shit excite me? Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that what fun is? Hell yes. For me, that\u2019s it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have never understood why games were seen as necessary. They are all things that can be done in any context, with almost anyone. Kids. Schoolmates. Women. Strangers attending the same event. That stuff\u2019s available at millions of venues outside a men\u2019s team. The other thing isn\u2019t. It just isn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men making powerful change is fostered by men getting together to create powerful change. We do that in team meetings and in few other places. We put just a tiny fraction of our time into the most important stuff we do. And then we take time away from even that time to have “fun” when the work itself, the deep, hard shit, is more fun yet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait, many will say. We need those games to be present, to get out of our heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really? It sure doesn\u2019t do that for me. It might tickle me. It often tires me. And it usually bores me. But it absolutely doesn\u2019t get me “out of my head.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know what does? Sure you do. Because you remember how still, how concentrated, how utterly locked-in and silent men can be when the real work is going on. And when the pin drops \u2026 when some man dives into the crucible and demands the heat, we hear him. Hell, that stuff gets the rest of us to vibrate in some cool frequency, some team ESP, we never achieve playing panty-ball or bingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while I\u2019m at it, I recently became aware of a term I\u2019d never hear before, and one I disliked. That dislike has grown to loathing as the phrase has proliferated. At a recent meeting, for example, the leader said crisply, \u201cOK men, after we\u2019ve checked in, we\u2019re going to have a fun. Then we\u2019ll have circle time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fun? Really? We\u2019re going to have “a” fun? As though fun is a thing that can be rolled in and out like a breakfast cart? I don\u2019t know where the term came from, but if I did I\u2019d send it back, pronto. Holy mackerel I\u00a0hate\u00a0<\/em>that term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So look, I know all men are different. Some like to play games, or to make up haiku or any one of a thousand things that give people zest and pleasure. They give me pleasure, too. So, to that I say, go! Play those games, write those poems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a wonderful time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, when you\u2019ve rested, go to your men\u2019s team meeting. Listen with all your ears to the other men. To their stumbling blocks. Their desires. Their commitments. Hell, listen even more for their bullshit and tell them in no uncertain terms that they\u2019re stepping in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t speak for all men but for me?\u00a0That\u00a0<\/em>is fun. It\u2019s all the fun I need.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s a thing you create rather than purchase by the yard. \u201cLet\u2019s have a little fun tonight, fellas, what do you say?\u201d \u201cDo you…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30643,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions\/30643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}