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November 2009 
What do you do when you're bored?
Posted on Oct 22nd, 2009
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mimi
mimi
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 22, 2009:
I'm never bored - there is always something to do - garden, cook, read a book, walk downtown, watch tv, play pogo games,talk to friends on the phone, lay around watching tv, the list is endless. What is there to be bored about? What do you have to tell yourself to "be bored". Maybe you're bored because you are boring? Maybe bored people need to get moving around, acting alive, being useful. Is there any appeal in being bored? Even if you are bored, why would you tell someone? - like are they going to fix it for you? Amuse me! and then what...........? If you tell me you're bored, I would give you THIS LOOK.
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I bet myself you wouldn't be bored before i read this ,love and hugs Mimi
I like the part about “maybe you're bored because you're boring?” – nice twist on the world reflecting what one is putting out there …
When I told my mother I was bored, she would usually say, “Only a bore is bored.” I think she was right. It's a little harsh, but probably what I needed to keep hearing.
I like the look, it says, “So?”.
how boring to be bored. Yikes…I could be Martha's mother. Anyway with all the variables out there I would think that if someone is bored… they're not paying close enough attention.
Thanks all you wonderful people for dropping by and leaving your comments.
Zephyr - you are never boring and have been an inspiration to me since I first joined zaadz/gaia.
Barbara - it's good for all of us to pause and think about what we are putting out into the Universe.
Martha - I thought the same thing as maze wrote below - “I could be Martha's mother” :>)))
Sandi - yep, “I googled 'blank stare” and this one seemed to say it. well - like, “so?” or “ya, and……..?”
maze - I agree - so much is available out there, all you have to do is choose and act, and stop “pissin' and moanin' as we used to say in Thorold South.
ms mimi, I can't imagine you EVER being bored! Nor would anyone in your presence be bored! :) Love the pic - kinda says it all :)
where're the trees Posted on Sep 20th, 2009 I like unusual combinations and I also like unusual perspectives. The abstract is like a koan to me. I remember many years ago during a slow day at work I overheard someone say “I'm bored.” Since I'm so easily amused, I said to the person who made the comment….why don't we play a game. What kind of game? And I said, why don't we play…imagine people fucking. How do you play. Simple, in your mind pair up what you consider the two most unlikely people and then imagine them having sex. How about Freddy the frog faced nerd hooking up fat Betty the former nun. Anyway this ended up getting so silly and absurd that after a while people were giggling all over the place and were probably less bored. Then, it got busy at work and the game was forgotten. I heard that a few weeks later some of the women in the office did a variation on the game and they called it…who wouldn't you blow for a million bucks. And when I asked this woman who she wouln't blow and she told me Joe Blow I said to her…Jesus, I'm not gay…but for a million bucks I'd even blow him. Anyway I think Robert Redford did a movie on some variation of that theme. The idea actually came from our office. So maybe boredom is a catalyst for creativity. When people tell me that they're bored I say consider yourself lucky. And when they ask…why's that, I say it's an opportunity to talk to god. I would imagine god is pretty fucking boring. And my god is the fucking going on between Betty & Freddy. My god never says to me…excuse me Tom I have to go to the bathroom…brb.
Funny though, there are times when I act like there is no god. And my god doesn't get bored with my thinking. My god shows me the forest.