O#### Ever since I entered motherhood, I forgot about how boring felt like despite the extra busyness at home. Days were so packed, sometimes, you didn't even have time to poop, and you would not have a chance to sit there to ponder on boringness. And I wish I can feel bored again. When house is always filled with noise, and you have unending housechores, it is quite a 'meaningful' life. However, no way do I mean boring life equals to not meaningful life. Don't get me wrong.
Honestly, I think children can relate more with being boring. Or being bored. Arggh! I can't believe it, that as an adult, I still confused with the usage of boring and bores. I studied it before and now I kind of forget about it. Like for some people, the usage of lend and borrow. Oh well, life is full of activities after activities in the thoughts of children. Once they have 5 minutes of no activity, "Mummy, so boring."
"You can help me fold clothes if you have nothing to do."
Turns out to them, feeling bored doesn't mean nothing to do. They just need a fun-packed activities. Instead of helping to fold clothes, they find ways to play with the pile of clothes. Putting briefs on face, imagining a new kind of superheroes. Putting my bras on their head saying they are mutated Minnie Noise.
I totally envy children. Well, I had been there before. Life is so interesting back then. When we were bored, we went outside without any fear of danger. We went to the drain to catch tadpoles. We walked to the nearby isle 'jungle' to find dragonflies and butterflies and ladybugs. We found different types of flowers and tried to eat them if they had any nectar. Never a boring life for us. Some of our friends climb trees. Poke the coconuts. So many fun activities in the nature. But children nowadays, if not all, boring equals the desire to watch videos or play video games. Impostor who?
Last year and this year's pandemic caused life filled with boringness in some ways. We couldn't go out. We couldn't travel. We stay at home.
And continue to...
Stay at home.
And then I realised, I contradicted myself.. I did feel what a boring life. Yet, kept reminding self that we were surviving a pandemic. Good job on us. Well done. You know what boring life caused me? A lot of online shopping. Haha. I developed new hobby of browsing through alot of interesting items, added them into the cart, and then deleting them after deep pondering and realised I didn't need those items. What a waste of my time.
Boring
Do you feel bored reading this?
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