A Lousy Day

Its one of those days.. boring..dull...nothing happening... kinda start to wonder whats life after all. I mean people have bad days when something unexpected and negative happens, but how can you have a bad day when nothing happens!? Dont know why this question did not pop up sooner, because I have had loads and loads of such lousy days! Its amazing how your mood can change like a flip of a coin, one minute you are starting and looking forward to another day and the next minute you start to wonder whats the purpose of me being here anyways! You may have everybody around you, but when its time for that lousy day theres just nothing anyone can do to help. If a day without anything happening can bother you and bring you down to such a large extent, then I wonder how a person's emotional capacity handles actual lousy things that happen in life. Well, think about this, what part of the brain do you think reacts to make for a lousy day. Acually, I feel no part of my brain reacts as a result of a lousy day. I sat there watching Winona Ryder in some movie called Reality Bites, she was having a lousy day too, well she lay on the couch running up her phone bill and smoking away pack after pack of cigarretes!

Reasearchers itseems have said that 'Its high time boredom be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity'. Well I have never seen any of my boring and lousy days turn into anything other than couch lazing, binging on fatty food and watching any damn thing on the TV. If you are bored, itseems your brain has concluded there is nothing new or useful it can learn from an environment, or a person. Yeah! I have been living in the same house for more than 2 decades, watching TV forever, what do you expect, for me to discover a falling apple! or get a sudden entrepreneurial brainwave! come on get real. Well ofcourse the researchers say 'Its the difference between a sort of person who can look at a pool of mud and find something interesting, and someone who has a hard time getting absorbed in anything'. I tend not to like such quotes, because I somehow never make it into the good group! Arent quotes like that supposed to be inspirational! Check this one out 'When the external and internal conditions are right, boredom offers a person the oppurtunity for a constructive response'. Well since we are not breeding a million scientific inventors and entrepreneurial geniuses every minute, it can only mean the next choice, most people bothered by boredom do not possess the right external and internal conditions :). Well finally they say 'Boredom has the power to exert pressure on individuals to stretch their inventive capacity'! I am definitely waiting for the day when that one comes true!

some quotes that i found to be interesting :)

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear"
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)


"Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them"
Dickinson Richards quotes


"You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"
Freeman Dyson quotes (English Physicist, b.1923)


"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)


"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)


"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)


"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes (American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001)


"Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny"
Tryon Edwards quotes (American Theologian, 1809-1894)


"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Thomas S. Szasz quotes (Hungarian psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, b.1920)