Selectively Juggling

Seriously though, certain elements of being on the predictable hamster wheel of life. You know, wake up and get household ready – off to work, school and university. Then I drive to work and occupy my mind and time until it’s time to rush home, first to the shops, then train station to pick up my sons, then home to await my daughter’s disability school taxi. Then it’s the usual ‘noise’ and getting my daughter’s needs met so I can head out and get 80 minutes of gentle-yet high octane swimming, cardio,and pool based resistance training. Then it’s inside again to start getting dinner cooked (always from scratch) and then the usual insipid conversation with my son over “what’s for dinner?” Then he’ll enlighten me with some random tidbit of political, social or sporting history. I do actually love those conversations and try to stop what I’m doing to give him my undivided attention.

What does actually really bore me is flicking through streaming channels to find a show or series that interests me. I can literally spend ages just trying to find something that piques my interest. Let me just say that there is definitely way too much mindless garbage on tv, but hey ‘each to their own’.

I’m not easily bored other than that because my internal world, my mind is so incredibly active and richly nuanced. I love the opportunity to be bored really, because in some ways I may be mechanically on autopilot (such as when cooking) but my mind is actively engaged in multifaceted mental gymnastics. I’ve mentally hypothesised many world problem solutions whilst actively bored with some aspect of our mundane existence.