How to be bored

What are you feeling?

"feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity."

Something is always on. Something is always making a sound. Something needs to be looked at. Something requires my opinion.

What is “something?” Is it anything? Is it nothing?

Something Test

Close your eyes and slowly count backwards from 10 to 1. At 3 start to open your eyes. If you can see something, hear something, feel something, taste something, think something, sense something, then something is there. It passes the test.

The world appears to need us. The world appears to require our attention and our response. We live in a world where commenting, posting, tweeting, and responding, in any way, is life. If you are not responding, you are not living.

The moment you are taken out of the loop, you don’t know how to live. If life is being in the comment circle, not commenting is death. Who will know we exist? What will people think if they don’t see us, hear from us, get a text?

I need people to know I am, so that I know I exist. It’s not enough that I know I’m alive. Others must know I am alive or I won’t truly be alive. Perception, being seen through images, text, comments, and Meme’s bring me to life. Boredom is dying, if only for a little while.

Don’t bring work into it. Work is just something we do for a little money. It’s evil. It’s the thing you must do if your parents don’t love you enough to give you want you need. Which is everything. You need everything. Don’t you deserve it?

You should be bored with my idea of being bored by now. Ready to move on?

But what if life is like space?

What if the thing you are, is defined by the things you are not?

What if large amounts of nothing, make being something possible?

What if that feeling of being weary when you are bored is really the feeling you have before you start to have new and creative thoughts? What if the lack of interest in an activity, is the doorway into insight, wisdom, intelligence?

The “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity” is the starting place for new creative adventures. To have a great creative life, boredom is required.