What bores you?
Circles, with no end in sight is a bore. Infinity loops drive me nuts. Add a texture to it and automatically the unpredictability brings in a level of interest and most often this is what I am looking for. GoKarting is a terribly boring activity for me. I like the first couple of laps where I am learning the route of the track, once that’s done, just going around in circles counting laps is boring for me. My mind wanders and I am eager to stop going in circles. I’ve stopped signing up for the sessions, let the kids and spouse enjoy it, and by extension some parts of F1 is also boring for me. But, the unpredictability of the track and changes that occur due to the high speeds, makes this slightly more interesting.
That being said, imagine having to redo a daily prompt, because your device had a glitch for some reason!! This is me. Today. Round 2. Talk about Bored!
Recently I was having a discussion with one of the kids, about classes being substituted and how irritating it was. Our discussion went on for sometime and I found that I was telling them to settle down in their mind about the reason for this substitution. And that them getting so worked up with the school would not help, as the school had a schedule to follow and those were not options students got to choose. The kids understood this point, yet the discussion went on, until eventually I just told them, I was bored discussing something where we were just going around in circles in. A discussion for the sake of just talking makes no sense to me. And this bores me. Terribly. I don’t mind debates, discussions, conversations any form of exchange of ideas, sharing of thoughts and perspectives helps clarify matters. There is a start which may be at the level of ignorance and then there is the finish which is at the level of understanding and in a best case scenario enlightenment and I don’t mind this journey. I get bored with the concentric circles we go through in the middle.
Repetition does not faze me. Sometimes you get better at something because you repeated it enough times. The muscle memory helps. Everyday chores don’t get mundane, and I’m ok with the economy of action that repeating it causes. I’ve practiced sports, I understand the importance of muscle memory and repetition and getting over the thought of something being mundane. But I don’t understand it when you do something badly on purpose, for instance you do something halfheartedly, the results are just as lacklustre and that bores me. I used to watch an Indian television series called, ‘kkasauti..’ and initially I watched it because I knew someone on the production team. I watched it through till it reached the triple digits, then through the time leaps and all the chaos that brings. The plot was riveting, there was absolutely no idea on where it was going, and there was just so many interesting leaps happening, and then out of the blue, it just flipped and started to get repetitive and predictable and that made it very boring. Specially for someone who had been watching it non stop since it started, this repetitiveness made it average. They were going round in circles and the end was nowhere in sight.
Everyday you get a fresh new start to make a difference and make a change. I prefer to use this as an opportunity to learn something new and different. Life in its entirety is the same for all of us, we’ve defined the time and the location. The other options we now have is to figure out how to make different selections and choices that can alter the course of what may transpire today. A change of pace, change of location or even just a simple change of angle will move things from being mundane and boring to becoming something more interesting. I work with something playing in the background for noise, it could be a movie on the iPad or a series I’m binging on at the moment on TV and this automatically changes the perspective and focus for me. So I may be making my morning tea, which I do every morning, and it is a boring chore. But the change of audio or video ensures that my focus has moved from the activity of making tea to what’s happening on the screen or what I am listening to & this makes all the differences.
Just a little more 