Have you ever felt that nothing different ever happens? You wake up, do the usual things after waking up, go to work, do the usual things at the work place, then you go home afterwards, or after you’ve rendered overtime. The same cycle that varies only during weekends, where weekends are also a repetition of the other weekends.
Such is the monotony of life. This is why respites are a necessity – escapes from the usual routines.
When I get bored at work, I take a deep breath then stop from what I am doing, and do the rounds. I try to kill time before it kills me. Or I sing in the middle of a pile of work to break the nagging silence in my room, or play the MP3 and sing along. I don’t care if I get off tuned. Nobody’s there to judge if I sang according to key.
The best way for me to stop this languor for a few moments is to talk idly, and I say idly, with my friends – anything goes – from jokes, green jokes, facts of life, people, actors, actresses, bosses, pet peeves, etc. And how I love those 15-minute breaks, really! And I love the extension even more, thanks for some leniency.
Some would even think, which I do at times, that there must be an occasional anomaly to break the monotony. Not that you do break in a bank to rob, or force somebody into sex, or engulf yourself with illegal substances. Just the kind that is very different from the typical sequence but still reasonable and humane.
And I wonder would there be any real relief from this tiresome iteration?
Don’t mind me, I am just bored to some extent for the moment…
Such is the monotony of life. This is why respites are a necessity – escapes from the usual routines.
When I get bored at work, I take a deep breath then stop from what I am doing, and do the rounds. I try to kill time before it kills me. Or I sing in the middle of a pile of work to break the nagging silence in my room, or play the MP3 and sing along. I don’t care if I get off tuned. Nobody’s there to judge if I sang according to key.
The best way for me to stop this languor for a few moments is to talk idly, and I say idly, with my friends – anything goes – from jokes, green jokes, facts of life, people, actors, actresses, bosses, pet peeves, etc. And how I love those 15-minute breaks, really! And I love the extension even more, thanks for some leniency.
Some would even think, which I do at times, that there must be an occasional anomaly to break the monotony. Not that you do break in a bank to rob, or force somebody into sex, or engulf yourself with illegal substances. Just the kind that is very different from the typical sequence but still reasonable and humane.
And I wonder would there be any real relief from this tiresome iteration?
Don’t mind me, I am just bored to some extent for the moment…
Hi Bing. I do feel such feeling of boredom once in a wgile, in fact, in recent weeks, i have been bored more often than before. Maybe its stress that gives more emphasis to monotony, like doing so much of the usual things.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, you'll need a very good vacation. I have found out that a little travelling, to some places you've never been, really cures the monotony of life. Pagdating mo galing sa biyahe, parang nagiging bago and lahat.
Hi miss bing,
ReplyDeleteactually im feeling the same way! hayy...bored.bored.bored. =)
that is a nice idea, major tom! parang Christmas vacation...
ReplyDeletepangit na feeling, 'no, Squishybear? pero lumilipas din naman...
ReplyDeleteWhat bothers me is when I get up, brush my teeth, take a shower, roll the deodo on my armpit, locks the door & make a sign of the cross before pressing the elevator to the lower floor.
ReplyDeleteIn a way, it's so obligatory, redundant. As i walk through the same path for work, I ask myself "why do I do these"?
I don't know but TUESDAY is the most sluggish day of the week for me.
it really happens once in a while... what you do with it matters..
ReplyDeletethanks for dropping by, k.
Well, ganyan talaga ang buhay, parang stock, minsan volatile, minsan flat, minsan down and minsan up.
ReplyDeleteThink about these.
"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art." by Maya Angelou
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." by Buddha
I get bored too and tired of my daily life sometimes. Ang ginagawa ko nalang, I walk around to see the activities of other people. tapos nare-realize ko mas maraming bagay pala na dapat akong makuntento...uuwi na ako nyan na may ngiti sa labi. Yun lang siguro ang dapat nating gawin, break the monotony sometimes...
ReplyDeletebing, bilib talaga ako. galing mong writer. kahit bored ka you can write something worthwhile na hindi boring. parang irony yata ano?
ReplyDeleteIndeed a monotonous life were living here. As for me..I always have something to look forward to..like a family time together on the weekends, going out as a family. I get bored too with my daily school/house routine..who wouldnt..hehe. But the more I look forward to that day..the more I get pumped up.. Have a great one bing.. :-)
ReplyDeletehi, rolly!
ReplyDeleteganda naman ng mga words of wisdom, a... especially that onelife is pure adventure.. i must admit it is. dumarating nga lang ang ganitong mga pagkakataon...
hi, rolly!
ReplyDeleteganda naman ng mga words of wisdom, a... especially that onelife is pure adventure.. i must admit it is. dumarating nga lang ang ganitong mga pagkakataon...
na overcome na rin, Sol, ang boredom.. i also look at God's blessings to me and that wipes away all the negative feelings including boredon..
ReplyDeletehuh?? salamat naman, KU... ibig bang sabihin niyan, dapat ma bore na ako palagi? ha ha (joke)
ReplyDeletethanks a lot, really. coming from you, it warms the heart.
i am looking forward to it, too, honeypooh! hope you'll have a nice one coming...
ReplyDeletehi flex j,
ReplyDeleteang cute siguro ni Dumbo tingnan he he ako, music ang madalas pumapatay sa boredom ko... and reflections...
thanks a lot for the compliment!
That's a question I keep asking myself everyday...
ReplyDeleteThe monotony is slowly killing me.
Howdy Bing... Getting bored eh? Welcome to the club! There is a common cliche that says permanency or stagnation is evil and that change is the one thing that makes this world what it is - vibrant, mysterious and interesting. The irony is both good and bad work hand in hand to create this much needed change. In short, crisis is necessary to prevent stagnation. The personal crises we experience, good or bad are agents of this much needed change, integral to the nature of our existence. Everything in our world will change, even our sun will lose its heat at some point in the future. Nothing will remain the same.
ReplyDeleteOur active bodies cannot seem take stagnation either. When don't have anything to do, our body aches and the mind complains. I do think every person needs to have a favorite hobby, or something he/she likes to do a lot, in essence something to look forward to when things get boring. Yun ang excited ka to do and it can be a daily or once a week activity pwera na lang pag datang lolo ka with no energy na who sits in the rocking chair just letting father time pass by. It is at this advance age that the body starts the final journey, irreversible stagnation process and atrophies on to self destruction.
hi, ron allan! there must be a way always to overcome boredom so we dont let it 'kill' us. we have to experience things such as this to spice up our lives, too.
ReplyDeletewow, bw, that's 'deep' - stagnation as evil! well, i agree that they are agents to keep us going, too. if life is always beautiful, or always bad, that's not variation. there has to be variation..
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen Bill Murray's Groundhound day. In that film, the same thing happens everyday that he would try to kill himself and only wake up to the same thing the next day. When my brother talked about said film i told him why would you watch it if the same thing happens everyday??? Boring!!!
ReplyDeleteBut the film is interesting! After realizing that he can't do anything about it knowing that he would come up with the same event the next day he put in something everyday... learned from each day and in the end actually liked doing stuff...
So what am i getting into? Each day is different no matter how the same it seems to you... you have a choice to let the monotony get to you or choose to find something different... for there will always be one :-)!