What do you do when you feel bored in some class, office or in the boring party?
We ussually search something to play with, to chat with or to imagine. That my friend is the beginning of invention.
I imagine in the past, when people were start doing some agriculture. they spent a time planting and tending them, than what do they do? They just wait, not much going on. They get bored so they start doing things that more fun than waiting.
Maybe they play some sport or maybe some make gameboard like chess. Start wondering what I can build from stuff araound me. Some people start telling story, or art stuff like painting sculpting.
All of these are from boredom.
We can’t get any of the entertaiment or technology that we have now if we don’t get bored. We want to get out from this boring life, so we make something that make it not boring.
The fiction writer are the specialist at harvesting the essence of boredom. They bored at this dull world so they start making new world in their mind, they going into the adventure in an exciting world.
So when you feel bored at some point, let your mind wondering, maybe you will be the next inventor or best seller fiction book writer.
Jericho's Random Thoughts 