Musings on "Boredom"

Dear Friends
Many diagonise that the root cause of boredom is in doing same things again and again !!
Let us touch our hearts for a moment and genuinely answer this question……Is it possible to do different different things all thru' our lives ?
Check with Kamal Haasan or AR Rahman in private, they will candidly admit that their work is not always "different" for them. Perhaps they may have more percentage of variety than for you and me.The first thing to admit to ourself to drive away the boredom is that "repetition" is unavoidable in lives.
In fact I have always felt repetition as a great opportunity instead !! But how, let me explain
The first time we do some thing, we are over-cautious and really miss the pleasure of enjoying it. When we become experts in any act for that matter, here is an opportunity to test out ourselves in terms of some stretch goals OR taking up some new dimensions that we can never think about when we do things first. Catch my point ? With we doubly sure about our performance as we are experienced, the second time we can indeed take a goal on the quality of our output, look for a delighter goal in the third attempt, try to bring down the time by half in the fourth time….and so on….But why ?? Just to kill the boredom…I don’t think this planet will be sufficient for our aspirations if we want variety in life. It is we who have to change ourselves as performers and not complain about the stagnancy of the work.What ever we pinpoint at with our index finger, let us remember the heaviest of all - the thumb - is pointing towards only at us !!
I had the opportunity of making the presentation "Story Telling" couple of hours back here at coimbatore - which I did for Visteon last year (First week of January 2008) . It was a previlege to do this nice presentation that I impulsively prepared for you all - in front of 44 Launch Team members belonging to 11 different Operations. Logically it should have been boring for me but it was totally different experience this time. (Nithya & Jabeen know it better). Many planned things did not happen and lot of unplanned things happened during this 15 minutes presentation but it is so in our lives too…right ?
For that matter, I never get bored with the routine. Had always been an abnormal in doing the "filing" of papers passionately which people try to pass on to other lesser mortals.
Before I end this musings, let me narrate a wonderful incident that happened couple of years back.
I have a wonderful niece who is in B.Com First year currently. I have been seeing her right from her infancy and naturally we have a strong bond and perfect understanding. Once it happened, when we were walking towards our home at chennai, both of us by coincidence did not talk to each other. While I was thinking about some thing quite deeply, after close to 15 minutes as we approached our home, with a sudden jolt of realisation that it could be quite boring for her, I turned towards her and asked her "why are you so quiet ??"….She responded me with a smile with a statement that made me feel proud about her
"I was just counting from one…two...three…(numerics)…right now in 237 !!"
Believe me, it is impossible to have boredom in life ….if we are little conscious about the excitement that life can offer us…..!!
That’s all for the week
Suren
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