Bored?

 Boredom is a part of life, or, should I say, inevitable part of life? Because life runs on repetitions. We have day after a night and the same night after the day. We eat three times a day, a limited number of food items for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In fact, sometimes the same breakfast even the next day. We barely eat those same 10-11 items that we know to cook or that are available, in the course of time. I think all of you must be already aware of this inevitable phenomenon of our mind. We hate REPETITION! Our mind wants something new everyday. Almost every moment. We start off with certain subjects to study and if we are intelligent, it won't take any long for that subject to lose its charm. We take up a job, won't take much time for our mind to get used to the same boring work and we end up looking for something new already. Same happens with anything we want to do in life. But I wonder. Recently, I've joined a team (Team Ananda) of dynamic people who conduct workout challenges, meditation challenges for around 21 days every month (online). The leader (or founder) of this amazing group never ceases to amaze me. To work and earn, to carry out everything we barely do everyday in our life and yet, give 6-7 hours in her day in the morning and the evening, handle the social media, spread the message to people and to conduct all the challenges by oneself, I thought to myself, WOW? I think I found my answer to boredom right there. A wise old man said, there is one thing that can withstand repetition without boredom. "Love." 

Anything we do with love, we don't bother repeating it a hundred thousand times. In fact, we can't but repeat what we love! Let's say we saw a movie that blew our mind, we don't bother watching it over and over. We love a particular song, it is on repeat mode in our playlist. (Please don't ask me if we love brushing teeth. At least, we know it's good for our teeth, or at least for the people around us.) Love, as a feeling, can be lost and that's exactly where the terms we all kind of don't like, come in picture. "Dedication" & "Commitment". Loving something or someone is very easy. But sustaining that love through hardships and boredom is the real deal. 

I think it's kind of understandable that these dynamic people who run companies out there, who do PhDs out there, who are doctors and treat patients everyday and many more whom we know as succesful must've sustained their boredom because they believe in the cause they work for, or because of the love they have for what they do.

When we know we are doing something good or supporting or initiating a cause that makes this world a better place, even then, the intent of service is most likely to eliminate boredom through the satisfaction we find in what we do. Whatever the case may be, I consider boredom a boon. I very honestly am not the jumping type. These days, people jump from one thing to another pretty easily because they are not clear about what they want in life and even if they are, they are afraid of repetition more than failure. They are afraid of boredom more than hard work. To find satisfaction in something, for me, sustaining boredom is the only way to fall in love with it. I'm not in the opinion that one should do what they don't like and should stop looking for their purpose or what they might love doing. But if one chooses to do something, there'll be boredom. There will be second guesses but that's no path to take. But sustaining that boredom is the real deal. Nobody wants to look back and see themself being nothing in anything. So, if you are bored with something, amazing! Sustain a little longer! 

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