In my book “Brave The Wave”, I quote someone who I remember saying, “well, honestly my life is not very interesting.” This person was explaining why they spent so much time looking at social media and Instagram. It is really evidence of the phenomenon that we are currently seeing everywhere in this country. “Life watching”. Either watching people live out their lives or trying everything we can to get other people to watch our lives. Here is an excerpt from “Brave The Wave”,
Joseph Campbell said, “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
I’ve heard people say, “Well, my life’s not very interesting.” But we have the choice to discover, explore, and seek our unique gifts and talents to use in this life, which makes life interesting, exciting, and worth living to our fullest potential. It’s our responsibility, because no one’s going to do it for us. We can make our own lives as boring or as interesting as we choose.
We can choose to spend time merely “life watching.” We’re free to learn as many details of other people’s lives as we can, but we aren’t free from the consequences of that choice. We should remember the truth. We know the truth from the Bible, one that’s reaffirmed in NDEs ( near death experiences) : we’ll be held accountable for how we lived our life. We won’t be asked about or shown anything from anyone else’s life.
Boredom isn’t part of the plan. Boredom is our own fault. It’s the unwillingness to explore our unique and authentic selves. It’s our unwillingness to examine our passions. We’re never bored when we pursue activities and actions that fully realize our individual uniqueness and authenticity.
We need to remember that what other people are doing is not our business. We may be watching other people become who they were meant to be, while we’re wasting time ourselves in not discovering and realizing our own full potential.
Whenever we feel bored or we feel the need to be “entertained”, that is an opportunity. An opportunity for discovery. It’s an opportunity to move closer to our authentic self.