“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Boredom

I DEFINITELY NEED SOME

Boredom, we all experience it from time to time. It's caused by not having anything particular to do. While I'm not always doing something worth mentioning, I do always try to have something particular on my mind. I can see someone living in an apartment not having anything to do. I mean, there is no grass, bushes, trees, etc. to keep up. But I have all of those and lots more stuff to keep me busy. I have way too much to do.

I mean, I need boredom in my life. I would call it taking things easy. The only reason I ever thought about boredom in the past was that my four kids reminded me of it daily. They're grown now, but it used to be "Dad, I'm bored!!!" My response was to always find them something awful to do. "Pick up all the sticks in the yard. Now, are you still bored? Because if you are, I've got some dreadful stuff you can all do. Now go look up the word boredom in the dictionary and see what it means, then figure out a way to keep from getting bored." And, you know what, it never worked. My son never got bored because I always had him doing an important task around the house- those things I didn't want to do. But my three girls, well, you study on that for a minute.

My four grandkids haven't figured out what boredom is yet. But it's coming, and I'm glad I'm not the one who has to break it to them. What a sorry day that will be. "Grandpa, I'm bored - I have nothing to do - what can I do?" LOL, well, my grandchild ..... the apple of my eye, grandpa has stuff that only you can do.