Bored...

[poliphilo]

...Is a word I refuse to apply to myself. I made this decision a while back and I'm sticking to it.

Sad, yes- that's OK. Depressed, well I try to keep away from that one too, but I realise it's not so much within my power.

But bored- that's wilful. That's an attitude of mind. A pose. It can be avoided.

It's a teen thing. It goes with growing pains and thwarted impulses. I'm a grown up, well-educated human being. I have resources.

There's books and movies and newspapers and websites. There's even other human beings.

There's jobs to be done. There's daydreams.

I just repaired the (very large) cardboard box the rabbits use as a warren. They'd eaten away one whole wall, so I patched it up for them. My, that was bracing! That was invigorating!

To be bored is to insult the Creator (if there is one). I don't generally have a problem about being rude to the gods (often they deserve it) but in this case it's just so unfair. This world has loads wrong with it but you can't say it's not interesting. It's too full of stuff (much of it horrible) to be boring.

As Stevenson said,

The world is so full of of a number of things.
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The definition I like to use for being bored is the state where none of the possible courses of action open to you hold any appeal. Unfortunately this can occur, for instance when you're at work. Being at work your options can be severely limited, e.g. beep the next tin of beans through the till... erm can't think of any other options in that case, except for those which would end up in disciplinary action.
It can be hard to find a job which you actually look forward to attending, so I would say boredom at work is a legitimate state for a lot of people.
Being bored in your downtime is not acceptable, especially if you find yourself regularly bored in your uptime.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, boredom at work and boredom in your downtime are really two different things. One is imposed on you and the other isn't. We need to expand the English language here.