Post by RoseNadler on Aug 19, 2020 5:46:58 GMT -8
(Partial re-post from another section.)
.... boredom is NOT as frivolous and harmless as people might think. Some people might scoff at a woman with a source of income and some privilege complaining about being “bored.” But if that boredom leads her to have affairs? Overspend? Develop a drug problem?
Not so funny, now. This is why I think people need to learn at an early age that life will not be fun or interesting all the time - and that that is NOT a problem that needs to be solved. People need to learn better how to cope with the parts of life that are just quiet.
I think I’m going to re-post part of this to the Boredom section - I’m not just talking about COVID boredom. Boredom pre-COVID got me into a LOT of trouble, because I never learned to sit with it and just let it be.
I think part of my problem as a child was that I had an active imagination to begin with, and I watched a lot of TV and was exposed to a lot of fairy tales and fiction of the “happily-ever-after” variety. I thought life was supposed to play out like a cute boy-meets-girl story.
What if I had seen more TV and more stories about people (especially women) doing the non-romantic/sexual part of their lives? Or more fiction about ordinary, everyday life - presenting “ordinary” as a good thing?
.... boredom is NOT as frivolous and harmless as people might think. Some people might scoff at a woman with a source of income and some privilege complaining about being “bored.” But if that boredom leads her to have affairs? Overspend? Develop a drug problem?
Not so funny, now. This is why I think people need to learn at an early age that life will not be fun or interesting all the time - and that that is NOT a problem that needs to be solved. People need to learn better how to cope with the parts of life that are just quiet.
I think I’m going to re-post part of this to the Boredom section - I’m not just talking about COVID boredom. Boredom pre-COVID got me into a LOT of trouble, because I never learned to sit with it and just let it be.
I think part of my problem as a child was that I had an active imagination to begin with, and I watched a lot of TV and was exposed to a lot of fairy tales and fiction of the “happily-ever-after” variety. I thought life was supposed to play out like a cute boy-meets-girl story.
What if I had seen more TV and more stories about people (especially women) doing the non-romantic/sexual part of their lives? Or more fiction about ordinary, everyday life - presenting “ordinary” as a good thing?
