day no. 17,433: all of the fuss and none of the fun

"Frivolity is trying to rejoice with nothing to rejoice over." — G.K. Chesterton, G.K.'s Weekly (1925)

Frivolity is artificial. It wants the rewards of intimacy without the intimacy and the benefits of responsibility without any of the responsibility. It knows enough to know that it should want to have fun, but refuses to turn to the Font of fun to have it. It wants to party without an occasion and a ceremony without a Guest of honor.

"The result is that at last even frivolity begins to fail. People who began by coming together only for fun end by doing it only for fashion; and there is no more even of faint suggestion of fun but only of fuss." — G.K. Chesterton, G.K.'s Weekly (1925)

Chasing a high is always exhausting. All of the superstition and reenactments cannot contain the thrill of the original. There is a reason for the original that the reenactment cannot capture. Eventually, you are left with fussing over the details of getting it just right only to be disappointed all over again.