Fun redefined this lockdown.

Redefine Fun in lockdown 

Fun can take new meaning when you choose to enjoy it yourself . Generate fun in various things you do, watch , read or listen to .

Easy ways include so many ideas.

1- Listening  to music is one way of enjoying and having fun. I set up my Bose Soundtouch30 after it was bought five years ago. It is now updated and has access to over 100,000 internet radio stations. You can keep changing six presets as you wish. Amazon music also plays on that. If you have interest in Apple Music pay and use it . Premium Spotify also plays on it . These three can give you access to over a few million or now billion numbers and albums. You may listen it on a good headset or just blast it in your room. 

2- Watch TV on any of the DTH packages you have. The channels can keep you glued for hours . Desist late nights and dark rooms to save your eyes. Don’t watch on tiny (13 inches also becomes tiny ) iPads in dark rooms. 

The smart TV can also stream Apple TV on it to get access to Netflix (you can access on 4 screens ) ZEE5,  Amazon Prime movies and music.  Many video creators are also available on FB that you can stream. Hundreds of video creators have mushroomed with short stories and movies. Caution is recommended when viewing few of those. One strange name is ULLU that also has subscriptions and content that needs caution to view with family. I mean horror sex and gory videos.

3- You tube also has its premium version to view unlimited content. I love the amazon music content available on amazon prime subscription (free on airtel thanks earlier )  Internet  browsing comes naturally while searching for nice movies and old songs. 

The music has old songs instrumental numbers and lilting audio of the old Indian Hindi music besides a host of other languages to choose from.

TV, DTH and Apple TV or other providers can drive you crazy and keep you glued for days may be.

Besides music and TV you may choose hobbies like painting on paper cloth or your own walls.

4- Hobbies like painting - My daughter does fabric painting on white or plain inners and also on her bedroom walls.

5- Photography is also fun if you love nature the rains the lightning these days and the sound of thunder to record. Taking good pix from balcony or video from windows of the rains. sunrise or sunset is great fun. Get ready to get wet top if it rains suddenly 

Some may consider it insane lying down on the terrace for fun while you have your iPhone or the camera with you.

6- Recoding time lapse - One seemingly very simple fun is lying supine  on the  terrace and clicking a video on time lapse of 2-3 minutes of the moving dark clouds and nature at dawn or dusk. Both my daughters tried it live last evening. The rains came soon after their Fun.

7- Dancing and singing in your own room to the music is easy and it’s no cost to you.

8-Doing yoga online with help of the SriSri yoga experts is also fun if you love yoga and health practices.

9- Yoga with music is also super great fun.

10- For many chefs in the making cutting vegetables is fun. I now love doing home kitchen Seva after the experience of kitchen Seva at the art of living kitchen while attending silence programs.

Solo fun also includes peeling fruits like pomegranates silently. Cut, peel ,collect the pomegranate pearls of health and watch your hands , dress as it can stain your clothes permanently. I find silently cutting vegetables peeling fruits like mangoes and apple as great fun.

11- Cooking is also fun. I learnt it this lockdown. Ocra cutting and cooking a nice dish was fun. Rolling chapatis is also easy if you love it to support home kitchen Managers. 

I just saw  Subbus Kitchen  on You Tube has reached 100000 subscribers. It provides easy recipes for home cooking. Mostly sweet dishes dosas and good vegetarian delicacies.

12- Singing karaoke is  absolute fun if you have streaming music I hinted in this article. 

13- With some caution eating is also fun. 

Be safe while eating and walk move and practice some exercise as constipation  can not be fun.

14 - Did I miss reading books and poetry. Non fiction and fiction are both worth reading. Many find it fun to read mystery and horror also. Not these days. I would prefer to read and enjoy light romance, self help and maintain peace in the mind.

15- Writing is equally fun if you have been attracting good traffic to your blogs and maintaining to hold the interest of the readers and also to buy items marketed by you online.

The points here are just a small list of items to have fun. I have excluded drinking or having dangerous substances as I don’t define it as fun once it hits you.

Dance sing cook eat listen watch and celebrate life .

Life is a celebration even if it’s lockdown. 

Thanks Gurudev SriSri Ravi Shankar who taught finding fun in small events and circumstances. 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bangalore 

murali04@gmail.com