Wed, Apr 22 2009

Bored? Well, you might be and you might not be

Well, it's unusual for me to get this far into the day and have forgotten to blog. I've been very busy researching events and doing other tasks. When people say they are bored, I always try to reach inside my mind and imagine what that would feel like. I think I've been bored a time or two, probably when I'd been ill and was not yet navigating as usual. I'd stared at twelve episodes of Walker Texas Ranger, three versions of the national news and even roamed past The Jerry Springer Show in a desperate big to watch something new and feel some sort of excitement about the day. I had no energy or stamina to get up and do things. But my mind and heart wanted to be occupied. Even when do happen to get into that particular state, if I can be near a window, I'm usually not really bored. There is always something to get the creative juices flowing.

I think what happens is that sometimes people use the word "bored" when they're actually feeling lonely. It doesn't have to be the kind of lonely where you don't have a date on Saturday night. It can be that disconnected feeling one gets even in the middle of a room full of people at dinner. And I think it happens more often to extroverts. It's not that they're inferior to introverts, but they thrive on the type of stimulus they get from being around other people and from a lot of action. Introverts just tend to take a different kind of comfort in being alone or in moving around alone. Well, it's just a thought. And hopefully you aren't bored after reading this late-night post.

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