Lesson to learn

What do you find boring?
The ceaseless inane questions about atheism / theism.



Ahhh!!!


As the decades go by, I actually find myself more and more interested in things, rather than bored of things. I seem to have the capacity to take them all in now, and the stability in life to be able to look at things without fear they might derail me.

But there are things I no longer do, and it’s probably fair comment that I am actually bored of them, too:

getting overly enthusiastic about certain car models, wanting to own them, and going out on a limb financially to make it happen. These days, I am happy to enjoy my two old American cars, and I use recent model Toyotas for no-headaches daily transport. I still enjoy looking at cars, but I don’t have to own every single one I like.
looking for the right place to live in the world. I’ve lived in ten countries, and believe I’ve now arrived where I want to be. I can imagine spending more time in France or Spain, but my home is here now.
pseudo scientific revelations. As exciting as all these things are, they no longer have me on edge. UFOs, Sasquatch, Nessie, ghosts, demons, Yeti… all very nice camp fire stories, but nothing that would make me buy a rifle, or build a tin foil hat.
getting distraught over stuff in the media. Once you’ve been reading the news for a few decades, you get a feel for the cycles everything comes in, and you also get a better understanding of the level of overexcitement many news outlets tend to express themselves in. Most of what’s presented is neither worth reading, nor reacting to, or even thinking about. It’s just the normal noise of human existence. Might as well be writing about waves in the surf, or clouds in the sky.
religion. I’m so far gone from that world, it’s not even funny. None of it even registers with me anymore. I’d forget Christmas if people didn’t remind me. Quite a turn for someone who used to be as religious as I once was.
fitness and weight loss. I know more about it than most people, and have decided that I am happy with my current level of slight overweight and non-fitness. We look the way we live, and I believe I live well enough to not be in any danger. Sixpacks will be found only in my fridge. And I can run up and down the stairs to retrieve a cooking ingredient from the basement without raising my pulse, so I am probably fit enough for the life I am living.
politics. Once you’ve been around for a while, you realise they aren’t worth the time, unless you are a politician. Personally, I look forward to a world where optimised processes and a generally adopted credo of ethics and logic will make politics unnecessary.
ambitious interior design projects. You don’t need to buy everything brandnew and colour coded to have a pretty home. Just drag in whatever cool second hand shop stuff takes your fancy, spend some time arranging it with a good eye for aesthetics, and then get used to the way everything looks. Done. Nobody can maintain a bookshelf where all the books are lined up according to colour if you are actually reading them.
controlling people and things. It’s the surest way to the funny farm, in my opinion. Let people and things do what they will do, then recruit yours from the pool of survivors and the rubble. They are solid, because they’ve been through the shakedown test already.
changing people. You can’t change people. Just take them as they are. We haven’t got any others.