The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29941   Message #422989
Posted By: Gervase
22-Mar-01 - 05:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED!
Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED!
Hell's bells - not yet two decades of tedium under your belt and you're bored?!
The poety's a good palliative - but what you really need is passion (and I don't necessarily mean the sweaty sort - though that's a good way to purge boredom).
What makes you angry? What makes you think: "No way - that's unjust, unfair and unreasonable"?
Channel that anger and angst into passion - put it into your poetry or go out there and do something about it. People who want to make a difference may be a pain in the arse to others, but they tend not to get bored.
With me it's been politics, music and being an incurable romantic that has kept boredom at bay for more than four decades now (and I've probably made myself a roight royal pain in the arse to many with all three).
I'm not saying you won't get into hot water or sometimes say to yourself: "Sodding hell, why am I doing this?", but you won't be bored. Having kids relieves boredom, too (in inverse proportion to increasing angst) - but I wouldn't recommend that just yet!