I hear the term so often, but I have never felt what it means. Not a single time in my entire memory can I recall being bored? “I’m bored” is a phrase I hear all the time being a teacher in a typical rural US high school. How can youngsters with so much going on around them feel as though there is insufficient stimulus to generate interest in something? Totally baffling!
As long s I am observing teenagers, have you noticed how kids, maybe people in general are always looking for some stimulus from other than what is around them? Phones, iPods, videos, TVs, computers are the usual culprits, drugs, books yes, but much, much less often. My theory is, people are afraid to be alone. Don’t much like the company I suspect. When a person can’t interest himself in himself, I see the signs of an underachiever. This is just a plain worrisome observation. Not to mention a downright waste of brain power. Everyone has something to contribute, however large or small. That contribution will not so often be stimulated by redundant or derivative behaviors.
Obviously, not every waking moment can be an engagement in production, but they can be in prelude to achievement. Being plugged into an iPod “because I’m bored” has yet to demonstrate, to me any way, a culminating behavior that warrants endless hours of blank expression and off key, whiny, muted voices mouthing the lyrics of some song over and over again. A tree might be observed doing the same thing as its leaves rustle in the breezes day in and day out. Should I expect great things from tress as much as I do from bored students? Perhaps that is a misplaced expectation on my part! Trees are at least gathering photons to grow and produce tree parts and oxygen, slow as they may be in the process. What visible product comes of endless hours in mindless stimulation? Totally baffling!
As long s I am observing teenagers, have you noticed how kids, maybe people in general are always looking for some stimulus from other than what is around them? Phones, iPods, videos, TVs, computers are the usual culprits, drugs, books yes, but much, much less often. My theory is, people are afraid to be alone. Don’t much like the company I suspect. When a person can’t interest himself in himself, I see the signs of an underachiever. This is just a plain worrisome observation. Not to mention a downright waste of brain power. Everyone has something to contribute, however large or small. That contribution will not so often be stimulated by redundant or derivative behaviors.
Obviously, not every waking moment can be an engagement in production, but they can be in prelude to achievement. Being plugged into an iPod “because I’m bored” has yet to demonstrate, to me any way, a culminating behavior that warrants endless hours of blank expression and off key, whiny, muted voices mouthing the lyrics of some song over and over again. A tree might be observed doing the same thing as its leaves rustle in the breezes day in and day out. Should I expect great things from tress as much as I do from bored students? Perhaps that is a misplaced expectation on my part! Trees are at least gathering photons to grow and produce tree parts and oxygen, slow as they may be in the process. What visible product comes of endless hours in mindless stimulation? Totally baffling!
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