BORED TO DEATH
The global crisis of boredom isn’t discussed enough.
So many of us are bored to death.
Bored of the rat race, the traffic, the repetition, the media, and yet so few of us make the leap to a more exciting existence. We stay rooted like oak trees into the ground, begging, pleading for the same, when internally and externally, we revolt against the systems that bind us.
Boredom fuels desperation, depression, and addiction.
When we live lives that are half full (or less), we pour five-gallon red jugs of high-octane fuel on those fires.
We actively say to the world around us that we don’t want anything, that we are content to work below our capabilities, eat above our body weight, and drink to excess because the lubrication in our brain helps keep it quiet and free from complaint.
It turns out the brain loves to go swimming.
It’s given a pool float and Rum Runner, and it can check out.
And man, does that ever feel good.
But I challenge you to push past boredom, comfort, and safety.
I want to challenge you to find something that moves you to action, whether it’s skydiving, knitting, or volunteering at an animal shelter.
Comfortable is a warm word.
It calls up visions of cozy fires in tall brick chimneys, hot cocoa, and a blanket.
That sentence alone makes me want to stop typing this and book a snowboard trip out West, where I may or may not leave my rental cabin.
But I have to leave it.
Every day, we have to leave the fireplace.
We have to take the cocoa to go, and we can just know that when we go to sleep, there will always be a blanket waiting for us at the day’s finish line.
This whole thing I’m doing here is about the disruption of comfort, the destruction of the familiar, in favor of the cold, wet, dark world around us.
It’s about people that challenge themselves.
It’s about places that demand more of you than you were interested in giving.
It’s about the pursuit of true comfort in the uncomfortable.
It’s about the ability to close your eyes tightly in that blanket, knowing that you lived fully that day and intend to do the same again tomorrow with all your energy.
EO- Live A Life Worth Watching
