And we certainly continue to suffer from lack of desire (more or less fre- quently and intensely in inverse proportion to how much we genu- inely enjoy our work and family life). So, how come we never seem to get bored now? We still get restless, although less frequently and intensely as we mature (read “become more frequently exhausted”). Boredom is equal parts restlessness (exhausted people don’t get bored they fall asleep) and lack of desire, complete disinterest in or aversion to any of the possible activities you might do next. Boredom isn’t a lack of things to do, after all. Time management that you kill a little time by working it to death mowing the lawn or cleaning your room or. Mom would suggest a list of a dozen or so of your favorite activities, but you were tired of them all. Why Don’t Adults Get Bored? It seemed like such a problem when you were a kid. Then the cycle of waiting and wishing started all over again. You might start wishing and wait- ing for your family’s annual vacation, and long before you were ready, it was time to go back to school. After a few weeks of the endless, unstructured days of summer, you may have caught yourself feeling twinges of something that just might have been boredom. After Christmas, maybe you had a birthday to look forward to, otherwise there was baseball season, and once base- ball season finally arrived, the wait for summer vacation would become all but intolerable. How much time did you spend staring at the classroom clock, which moved impossibly slowly throughout the day and even slower as 3:00 approached? Along about Halloween, you started waiting and wishing for Christmas. About the time you got to school each day, you’d start waiting and wishing for recess, and then lunch, and then the magic hour of 3:00, time to go home. On Mondays, you’d start waiting and wishing for Fridays.
If you were like most kids, you spent a lot of time waiting and wishing. Chapter 15 Turn Downtime into Productive Time 139
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