Bore me to tears
We were running late to school this morning because I opened that great can of worms called my contacts and the lack of sync-ability with Outlook, Address Book, and my iPhone. The Apple rep told that I needed iCloud and I felt like yelling iWONT!
I’m sick of technology at the moment having watched T trying to recoup her back up from Carbonite and everything being all over the map, and me with this umpteenth round of contact losses. Big major pain in the petuti.
So we get in the car after Tin is dawdling his way to the truck and as we start driving, Tin says, “Look, the sun.” And sure enough in the thick of the clouds was a little bit of sun peaking out. He then said, “It’s a beautiful day.”
Okay – so he undermined my bad mood. But later I was speaking to parents about boredom and one told me that a visiting speaker at Waldorf had said that boredom is good for kids, because it means that something big is about to happen.
You can fill in the blanks there – because they have a rested mind, because there is space, because they have finished everything before and are ready for the new, because there was capacity to conceive of the new.
But the reason I’m writing about this is because boredom is good for adults too – and we don’t get a lot of it these days because of technology. Instead we are always fixing something or recouping, or backing up, or what have you. But to sit on the stoop, the couch, the stairs and just be bored – what a blessing!
So try to schedule boredom into your overwrought routine.