I don't mean to sound like I am, it's just crossing my mind lately there's nowhere near as many posts as in the past, and also some are quite boring really. I'm just curious and it's freaking 5am aka I'm thinking of things to pass time.

I'm bored of your polls...

"Bored with xxx!", I would inwardly moan, reaching for the smelling salts in my lavender port-manteau. "Or even bored by xxx, if you must! But bored of xxx? Never, my dear, never!"

Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand.
(Note xxx is my replacement of the original text to avoid the conversation swerving elsewhere).

Life is mostly filled with boring times with occasional outbreaks of stimulations. The key is finding ways to fill those boring times with what you enjoy doing to make them more enjoyable. No one else can do that but yourself. :)


This is AWESOME ... something we should all remember.

A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.

As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.'

'That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied.

Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.

Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. 'It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away.. Just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.

So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories!

Thank you for your part in filling my Memory Bank. I am still depositing.

'Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

Nice advice. Good luck with acting on it, you'll need it.

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

What's so hard about that, VI?

What's so hard about that, VI?

People tend to have a hard time becoming robots or being fine with becoming robots ...

Nice advice. Good luck with acting on it, you'll need it.

That is only ADVICE not something you must remember. Everyone must go through life the way they want to but they also must allow others to do the same , the way they want to. Share with us your thoughts as to how you are going through life to help us see another way to live, other than the one I posted. Perhaps your philosophy would help others that might be questioning what they should do in their lives to make it through and have something at the end that they will remember as they grow old.

Everything is redundant eventually, even the desire to know something. And sometimes you have to stop looking in order to find something.

Someone said, eventually everyone realises that friends will disappoint them. We're a strange lot, we crave company, then reject it because we "need" to be by ourselves.
It's why psychiatrists make so much money, from people who worry about their behaviour.

Not so much bored but pretty apathetic. I'm also very selective about what I read.

Not so much bored but pretty apathetic. I'm also very selective about what I read.
And yet... you read, and responded to, one of Sam's threads.
Improve your selectivity! :p

My recent return to SF is because I'm bored with life at the moment. I suppose that this thread only makes matters worse for me.

And yet... you read, and responded to, one of Sam's threads.
Improve your selectivity! :p

My response was a moment of weakness. This response less so, as I actually have enough respect for you to read your posts. Can't say I read much of the rest of the thread though!

And is Darksidzz name really Sam? I never see eye to eye with Sams on this site.

He's given his name as Sam a couple of times, many moons ago.

Yes it's true, I gave my name and address, though now I live elsewhere xD