I Embrace

Casually surfing the internet the other day, looking at such things as jewellery online (that was the name of the site) and wondering about the lives of the wife’s of men who went out and got the little diamonds that made up much of this impressive site’s content, I said OH MY GOODNESS I AM BORED! The thing is, you see, that I don’t even LIKE jewellery. In fact I never have. I don’t own any, wouldn’t know a good bit from bad, and don’t have any friends or colleagues who regularly wear the stuff. Yet there I was, really quite bedazzled by everything jewellery online had to offer. It was tragic: finally I was resorting to upper class (but well designed, I must say) jewellery sites to get my kicks!

But hold on there pal, I thought, maybe this isn’t so bad. Just maybe, who knows? Hmm. Maybe there is something here that can be salvaged, mentally, and perhaps not each and every one of my brain cells are done for (just most of them...). So I switched off the computer, and you know what I did? Nothing is what. Absolutely nothing whatsoever at all in any way, for a good ten minutes. I embraced my boredom karma, and I lay on the couch staring up at the ceiling imagining reaching the summit of mount Everest or what it would be like to actually wrestle a tiger, and I mean ACTUALLY, as though me and it were locked in a fierce embrace and only one of us could survive (and the tiger was annoyed, so this added to the dramatic shouting of all the terrified and enthralled onlookers).

Go on, have some of it, embrace the boredom. It can be fun!