Fun, Fun, Fun

A colleague of mine, who has worked counseling mostly white middle-class students for some forty years, remarked that the most common complaint he has from those who come to him these days is 'I'm not having any fun'.

Closer inquiry reveals the lamentable fact that many students in college don't actually know how to have 'fun' without drink, drugs, electronic equipment, or some other consumer durable, or without going somewhere to 'do' something. Skiing, surf-boarding, roller-blading, and so ...