Is ennui a chief motivator? Look around. See all that unnecessary risk-taking? See the silly and sometimes dangerous postings? Imagine being so bored that you shoot your fiancé with his consent and your belief that a book serves the same function as Kevlar.* Imagine stepping to the precipice for that special Selfie. It appears that some of us will do almost anything to eliminate ennui, to liven things up, to make anew.
To some extent, we’re all a bit caught up in defeating ennui and in refreshing ourselves. Reading helps. TV, too. Then there’s music of every kind. Nightclubs, theme parks, hobbies, travels, obsessions…
Change the feng shui recently? Think of what it might be like to remodel? Want the same old place to look like a new place? Alter the way you cut the grass, comb your hair, make a drink? Out to find a new restaurant? Even wish a favorite restaurant would consider adding to the menu?
Making things new is a universal desire. We are in that constant search, and it is the search itself that wards off ennui. We don’t necessarily have to reach some goal, to, say, complete that collection of rare objects. Completion simply means reaching a new level of ennui. And from that level we go off in search of yet another level.
“I make new,” you say. And you “make new” in mind when body fails. How many of your actions today will be your attempt to reach the next level of ennui? What proportion of your thinking is an attempt to avoid ennui?
*http://wonderfulengineering.com/girl-accidentally-shoots-boyfriend-dead-youtube-stunt-gone-horribly-wrong/
To some extent, we’re all a bit caught up in defeating ennui and in refreshing ourselves. Reading helps. TV, too. Then there’s music of every kind. Nightclubs, theme parks, hobbies, travels, obsessions…
Change the feng shui recently? Think of what it might be like to remodel? Want the same old place to look like a new place? Alter the way you cut the grass, comb your hair, make a drink? Out to find a new restaurant? Even wish a favorite restaurant would consider adding to the menu?
Making things new is a universal desire. We are in that constant search, and it is the search itself that wards off ennui. We don’t necessarily have to reach some goal, to, say, complete that collection of rare objects. Completion simply means reaching a new level of ennui. And from that level we go off in search of yet another level.
“I make new,” you say. And you “make new” in mind when body fails. How many of your actions today will be your attempt to reach the next level of ennui? What proportion of your thinking is an attempt to avoid ennui?
*http://wonderfulengineering.com/girl-accidentally-shoots-boyfriend-dead-youtube-stunt-gone-horribly-wrong/
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