Modern technology with the distinct ability of providing a person entertainment at nearly any part of the day has brought about the biggest lull in modern development pertaining to new technologies and industries, as well as brotherly action in helping our fellow man to survive and pursue happiness.Back 70 years ago, my grandfather would have rather helped his neighbor round up the chickens going to market the next day, then to sit around the house bored.
Other people at that time, would rather try their hand at designing new parts for their motorcycles instead of sitting around bored.
With the ability of anybody today to access thousands of pages of information on mechanical devices, electricity and computational systems, we should have a dramatic influx of new patents and ideas coming to fruition, many of which would save today's poverty stricken countries from nightmares possibly including such things as social diseases and starvation. Instead today's teenagers and young adults are content on facebook, watching youtube videos, witnessing the newest blockbuster film, and practicing their fast twitch reflexes on video games... I'd rather be bored in a 3rd world country, then watch America's youth waste their lives on unimportant things (my opinion will probably change before I buy a plane ticket).
And yet, you post something like this, and it gives me a lot of hope.
ReplyDeleteBoredom is a choice. I don't think any of my kids would admit boredom to me - I'll give them chores :) It really is a lot more fun to LIVE life than watch it electronically. Hopefully more & more people learn this as they grow older and more in control of their time.
:)