“Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change … the shriek of unused capacities.” – Saul Bellow
When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you off for complaining that you were bored?
The standard view of boredom is that intelligent, active people have no place giving in to it – that we should all have the mental resources inside ourselves to stave off boredom, managing to find enough to do with our time to occupy our minds without succumbing.
However, this view of boredom doesn’t factor in the feeling you get when you are forced to repeat a task again and again, running out of passion and enthusiasm, without being able to do anything differently.
Let’s be honest. Sometimes, blogging can be boring.
It’s late in the evening, you’ve been slogging away at your laptop or PC all day, you’ve been dealing with irate customers, you’re tired. You want nothing more than to shut down, escaping the office in favor of some family or downtime.
