If You're Bored Then You're Boring

I'm going to try and keep this on the shorter side, but we'll see what happens. Easier said than done when on the verge of a rant...

The band Harvey Danger sings a song called "Flagpole Sitta" that I've heard 800 times on various alternative rock stations (753 of those times on Y100 back in the day). There's a line in this whiny, relatively mediocre song that says "but if you're bored than you're boring." I've been getting in this weird mode recently. Maybe it's because life is starting to get really busy (though it's clearly never busy enough to stay on top of my blog) or maybe I'm just trying to find new meaning in songs I've heard too much, but whatever the case, I've been really feeling this line.

There's no excuse for boredom short of sitting at an office job, but that doesn't even count because you're making bank there, so in theory you're at least attempting to be productive. I mean that I have no tolerance in this present day work-crazed, constantly multi-tasking society for anyone who says they're bored. I probably have as much, if not more free-time than the majority of people I know and I have zero problems filling it.

There's always something to do. And there's a good deal to do that doesn't involve spending money, so you can't use that as an excuse. I am relatively certain that if I had a pen in my hand and both legs functional I could stay occupied, and furthermore entertained, for a very long period of time. Give me a musical instrument or a ball, and that amount of time would increase even more.

Creativity is a dying virtue in society today. People are turning into TV zombies and spending a day on their computer for every 1 hour they spend outdoors...and that might be a generous estimation. I've been in the process of weening myself off these things, or at least drastically cutting back on them, for the last month or so. We've turned into this "information" crazed society, when really the vast majority of the stuff we get from our "information" sources is ultimately of no lasting value. I'm not anti-Al Gore's-internet, just think it's good in moderation.

One could argue that this blog is contributing to the aforementioned downfall of society. I would like to think, however, that by these writings I am flexing my creative muscles and ideally inspiring others to do the same, or at the very least begin to think about getting into the gym. But anyway, that metaphor's all used up so...

Maybe these ramblings can offer you a few moments in the day which you categorize as "not-boring"...but hey, if you are bored, as Harvey Danger is my witness, I'm not liable.