Boredom

My favourite quote came to me earlier tonight and it made me think;

Quote for the day “Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders they have managed to invent boredom? Quite astonishing…”(Death in The Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

We look at the world and find that there’s always something to do; read a book, write on your blog, go for a walk, talk to friends but we sit there and be bored and then wonder why everything is so boring and why life’s like that? We don’t have to be bored but we do seem to like feeling sorry for ourselves!

You see I’ve experienced wonders and inexplicable things which make my mind reel and thoughts light on fire, I’m conscious of there being truly multitudinous wonders out there for us to explore and discover yet I am still capable of feeling boredom. But here’s where I’m weird, if I get bored or suffer from some problem I feel the irrepressible need to write it down and share it, even if I do so only with myself and my pen (or keyboard in this case) and try never to wallow, because once you start wallowing you start to like it and then decide to stay there because it’s comfortable, warm and familiar. It becomes familiar, familiar become habit, habit becomes normal, we become normal…. and of course normal is dangerous. I always try to remain the opposite of normal because normal is a trap; conformity, fitting in, wanting to change what we naturally are…

So boredom leads to conformity and normality, leads to stagnation, leads to…..where none of us really want to be!

So fight boredom and keep occupied!

Life’s too short to be bored!