How would you describe your normal day—thrilling, reasonably interesting, hard, unhappy or boring?
On a normal day, do you have more moments which you would describe as interesting or gripping or thrilling or boring?
When do you tend to get bored?
What do you do when you feel bored?
Know this: Whether you feel gripped by what you are doing or bored, depends mostly on you. Whether your normal day feels beautiful to you or boring, says much about you.
How?
Let us suppose someone drops in and wants to talk. If you are genuinely interested in people, you will listen with attention, without judging. You really want to listen and to understand this person, and, if need be, help him/her in some way. You will be fully alive during the conversation, even if the other person does most of the talking.
If, instead, you are not really interested in people, and would prefer to gossip or watch TV or be free rather than be with someone who needs to talk, you will be waiting for the person to finish saying whatever s/he wants to say, and to leave. You will feel relieved when the person finishes and leaves. If the person speaks more than a few minutes, you may feel bored or even irritated. Please don’t say that this person is boring or irritating. The truth is that you are not interested in others, and find listening a hard job that you do not want to do.
Fr Joe Mannath SDB
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