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Type II Fun IV

Barnabas

Did you know there are different kinds of fun in the world? I’m not talking about the
difference between video games and snowboarding. There actually are three types of
fun, bear with me.

I II III

Type I Fun: Doing activities you like to do such as, snowboarding, playing video games,
or underwater basket weaving. These are activities that you really like to do, and you
want to keep doing them. Typically, you stop doing these fun things because you run
out of time, money, or mom’s patience. These are the things that most normal people
think of when you say, “let’s go do something fun.”

Then there is Type II Fun… these are activities that aren’t genuinely fun when you are
doing them but are fun to tell stories about at the dinner table or over drinks at the bar.
Type II Fun activities are things like long distance backpacking, mountain climbing, and
most military operations. Not fun in the traditional sense, but fun to reminisce about
with friends.

Then there is Type III Fun,
oh boy… Type III Fun
usually starts out as Type
I or Type II Funs but end
up taking a turn for the
worse due to a
catastrophic event. Those
life inconveniences, like
avalanches, shipwrecks,
and Ebola come to mind.
Normally, search parties
and rescue missions are
involved in Type III Fun
activities. Hopefully, you
don’t experience this kind