> Boredom

Sandeep

In this age of technology and living in the fast lane… you will see people using the words – I M BORED v frequently. In ancient times, or in fact even today if you go to villages you will find people sitting in the same place for hours and hours together without getting bored. Then why is it that we are getting so bored…??? Why do we need the auxiliary tools pf play like i-pod, books to read, TV to watch, games to play, etc. It is simply because we cannot live with ourselves!

Boredom is a new disease that has gripped man-kind . And to kill this boredom man goes about doing the most stupid of things. Let’s say some day you are bored and you go for a movie. The movie lasts for three hours. And you come back home. And voila… again you are bored. There is no end to this boredom. You cannot live with your own self. People buy things to get out of boredom. I have this friend of mine who shops to get out of boredom. Another eats to get out of boredom. This guy who already had a disc man, bought an iPOD… “why?” I asked him. He replied – “It shows videos too, now I will be less bored.” Great! Just some time back , the disc man was supposed to kill the boredom an now… I think the complete consumer industry works because of this one simple psychological disorder called as BOREDOM.

The higher the intellect (demons of doubt), the more he will get bored. Because the higher the intellect, the more reasons he will search and he will be more logical. And jokes are not logical. Life is not logical. And if you use your intellect continuously, the mind suffers and you can’t laugh. The more you think, the more hope, reasons, decisions, if and buts, the more comparisons… will arise. And from them will arise… complexes – inferiority and superiority. And the cycle will continue… People who laugh the most try to seek as little logic as possible. Laughing and boredom are faculty of the mind. The people who don’t ask the purpose of life… never feel meaningless. Try to dissect a joke and a frog, and both will die. And again there are smart jokes and illogical jokes. Most people today are searching for smart and witty jokes. They laugh… but only for a second. Senseless jokes are losing their value. Witty jokes satisfy the intellect. They please but don’t make you feel happy. Most people don’t laugh on dumb jokes because they try to search for reason in them. So smart people will always more bored. Logic is aggressive and argumentative… You are violent. You are speaking form the intellect. And enjoying and laughing happens in the mind. So you can’t laugh. Hence I say… nonsense in fact has a lot of sense within it.

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