“Too much rest
becomes a pain”
Homer
Let us, for a moment, ponder the words of Homer, who
lived thousands of years ago and who was the apparent author of the Iliad and
the Odyssey. Good, did you ponder enough? So, today I am going to look at
boredom, and I am going to start by saying that I am fully convinced that life
is a billion times too short to even consider being bored? I hope I am not
boring you! Oh my goodness, there is so much that you can do in this life, in
fact, there is so much to be done in so little time. How can you even not know
what to do with yourself on a rainy afternoon, or with all the possibilities at
hand? Voltaire once said that repose (that is, rest) is a good thing, but that
boredom is its brother. We should cut our ties with this family member because
boredom is nothing else than a thief, robbing you from your time, that precious
time that could have been used to make this world a better place.
Rather than opening
yourself up to boredom, you can rather reach out to a person in need, you can spend
that time with a loved one. You can go and plant something. Do something
productive – NO, I do not mean go and catch up on the last six episodes of your
favourite TV series… What’s so productive in that? Make, bake or go buy
something and surprise a grandparent with an unexpected gift. Come on, don’t
give in to boredom. Boredom is mostly due to a lack of inner creativity,
preventing us from using all the resources to our availability for something
good. It prevents you from creating goals, so, in periods of boredom, you cannot
be productive because you have no goal in sight. Don’t entertain boredom,
before you know it, you may be too old to do the things you otherwise could
have done in times of boredom. Let us utilize our time to its fullest capacity by
being productive, strive to eradicate any episodes which may be the beginning
of a session of boredom.
I am sitting here,
actually bored to death,
my inner drive is gone…
Come on, I haven't
breathed my last breath,
there are still a
lot of constructive things that can be done...
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