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miriam_eAmazing! While I was working away on the computer just now, there was a program on the radio about boredom. It talked about how people rush to their holidays to escape the boredom of daily grind then rush back to the city to escape the boredom of slow holidays. It was weird hearing people talk of things so alien to me. The last time I remember being bored was decades ago when I worked in a job where I had to pretend to be active without doing things. There was not enough inactivity or repetition to let me daydream, yet wasn't actually able to do anything interesting.
This program was pointing the blame at material wealth giving people free time as the basic reason for boredom; people have the spare time to be bored. But that is dumb! I have all the leisure time that I could ever want, but I am *never* bored. They completely missed the point.
Strange that they conducted a whole program on what seemed to be a complete mistake. Fascinated, I couldn't turn it off. It kept talking about leisure as being escape, and about wanting the hours to pass more quickly. For heaven's sake! I immerse myself in my days and wish the hours would pass slower. Time flies much too quickly; I hardly get a chance to savour it. But savour it I do. Although I have little money (I live below the poverty line) and have few material goods (except for my several computers and my couple of thousand books) I love my life. It feels like I'm one of the luckiest people alive! I read, listen to music, write, draw, watch cool movies on the computer, watch the beautiful plants and amazing animals around here, soak up the gorgeous landscape, create virtual worlds... *sigh*. What an utterly wonderful life!
This program was pointing the blame at material wealth giving people free time as the basic reason for boredom; people have the spare time to be bored. But that is dumb! I have all the leisure time that I could ever want, but I am *never* bored. They completely missed the point.
Strange that they conducted a whole program on what seemed to be a complete mistake. Fascinated, I couldn't turn it off. It kept talking about leisure as being escape, and about wanting the hours to pass more quickly. For heaven's sake! I immerse myself in my days and wish the hours would pass slower. Time flies much too quickly; I hardly get a chance to savour it. But savour it I do. Although I have little money (I live below the poverty line) and have few material goods (except for my several computers and my couple of thousand books) I love my life. It feels like I'm one of the luckiest people alive! I read, listen to music, write, draw, watch cool movies on the computer, watch the beautiful plants and amazing animals around here, soak up the gorgeous landscape, create virtual worlds... *sigh*. What an utterly wonderful life!
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boredom
Date: 2004-01-01 01:15 am (UTC)First happy new year!
There it just goes to show you.. not only do you have looks but you have a brain to go with it. Best of all you really know what to do with your brian...
new concept here....
Use it... you are endlessly creative my friend You express your self well in different mediums ie.. drawing writing and creating worlds with in worlds.
Best thu out the new year
as ever
Jenna+ Bunnie
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Date: 2004-01-09 05:59 am (UTC)I have neither good looks nor much of a brain.
But I can agree that I can use what brain I have to keep myself amused.
I was gently berating one of my lovely nieces yesterday that she has no excuse to ever feel bored. She has a very sharp mind and lives in a beautiful place in the most interesting period in human history, surrounded by books, music, and computers (my sister and parents are almost as bad about collecting such things as me).