I keep hearing about various organizations and companies make stuff like photographs of the cosmos or music files free while we are all hunkered down in our obedience caves. Wow. Did we really need a jump start on being spoon-fed entertainment through the internet? My wife and I already have thousands of songs, movies, apps, games, books, ebooks, old junk to sort, laundry to do, gardens to dig…
Yes, we have ton and a half things we can do while cloistered. But the one we’ve been enjoying the most … er, well, um, second most … is talking to each other.
“I’m bored.” Wow. Maybe you need to read Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder and find out what boredom might be like. You work 14 hours a day winnowing grain and maybe Pa will play his fiddle for you. If he doesn’t have smallpox.
“Working from home” is its own kind of purgatory, though of course, it’s better than having no job at all. I find myself watching far too much TV while a massive stack of books I’ve been accumulating over the last 2+ years goes sadly unread. To quote Travis Bickle, I gotta get prioritizized.
Being bored is something I have never experienced, even as a kid. While we weren’t told “if you’re bored, I’ll find something for you to do,” I’ve always made sure I wasn’t bored. That has been a life-long habit.