Fun VS Sense of Purpose

While working on my poster presentation and an oral presentation early this week, I experienced "fun" while working for the first time in quite a while. The fun, the anticipation of how people would react to my poster/PowerPoint slides was so great that I could work on them without the heavy feeling that I was working.

It got me thinking. What is the difference between fun and sense of purpose? I can work with a similar intensity when I have a sense of purpose in what I am doing. Is fun just a special case of sense of purpose? Or is sense of purpose just a different form of anticipation of how my method will perform?

Or is it really anticipation itself that can drive me to work like mad?


Perhaps it is anticipation.




Here are fun things I enjoyed this week:

• Twin Blood, a Double Dragon II remix by Sixto Sounds. The original tune is played on the second phase of the last boss. I've always imagined it played using blown instruments for "grand feeling" instead of guitar for "rock feeling" (like in this remix), so this remix was a little nice surprise for me :)
• Pixietricks and Big Giant Circles are OCRemix judges now.
• And, of course, VGDJ episode #57: when the 2 hosts are goofy.
  ZOMGpixietrickshasacrushandit'snotzircon?

(Edited on 5 March 2015)