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

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the concept itself of "boring" has always escaped me. At least after I learned to read at the age of 3 and a half years. There is always too few time to read all the books I want to read, and now, to follow all my friends' doings on the internet. Not to talk about the other millions of things I love to do. I don't think I have been bored one single moment in my life, because even if I am stranded somewhere without anything to read, listen to or write, my own mind is still such a kaleidoscope where always something is happening.. I think I am constitutionally unable to boredom. But the downside of this is that I don't sleep well.. that selfsame mind doesn't like to be shut down at all...!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Who can be bored in a world that contains books?

Like you I've got a list of things I want to read. Next up, Vanity Fair- then maybe some more Thackeray. And a friend just recommended Frances Hodgson Burnett...