Its has become more difficult to see fun, because we are not living in the world of 1980s where your paycheck and survival were guaranteed for next month. We are living in the financially unstable, financially insecure era that Reagan and his followers created. Now the parents don't have any security and peace of mind to undertake any long-winded project, leave aside fun projects, and the children who grew up in this environment reflect that - nothing is secure, nothing is permanent, everything is transient and there is little time for doing long-winded things.