BORED

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022) author and minister wrote:

“To be bored is to turn down cold whatever life happens to be offering you at the moment. It is to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general including most of all your own life. You feel nothing is worth getting excited about because you are yourself not worth getting excited about.
 
To be bored is a way of making the least of things you often have a sneaking suspicion you need the most.
 
To be bored to death is a form of suicide.”

It is important to remind ourselves that being bored is basically selfishness. If we are bored it is not someone else’s problem. It is our issue and no one owes us anything, needs to perform for us, caudle us, and do ‘something special’ to make it better. We might tap and rattle our fingers on the table and wiggle our foot, scratch our head and pop our knuckles… it’s still our problem. To be bored is to be bored with our self. And, that could be very boring. Boredom is a thief.

“A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” Jesus