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[Heather Perella]

SA:
> > Don't get me wrong. I love boredom. It does
> > depend on what one means by boredom. That's why I
> > brought up the emptiness example.


Dan G.: 
> Boredom would appear to be a lack of awareness in
> one's surroundings.

SA:  Yes.  This is what I love about boredom.  Once I
find boredom, then I've found something I lack
awareness in.  

Dan G.:
> I walk a great deal. Other
> people have confided in me that to them, walking is
> boring.

SA:  And if they had the attentiveness as to what this
boredom might mean, and the motivation to be aware of
this world, then they may more likely walk.

Dan G.:
> I think they think that on account of their
> lack of awareness of the changes going on all
> around. Every day something is different. Nothing
> remains the same. To me, becoming aware of all these
> changes eliminates any possibility of boredom
> arising.

SA:  You seem to be trying to overlook and generate an
emotion that is not aware of boredom.  Do you really
think you can rid boredom?  Is this healthy to make
nothing boring?  I see nothing as boring, meaning, all
is exciting and too much excitement is not good
either.  This again, we both know about for balance is
a well-trodden teaching.  Nothing new here.

Dan G.:
> For instance: I saw a tiny plant today growing in
> the road, in a crack in the asphalt, right beneath
> the path of the car wheels. This tiny plant has
> (apparently) learned not to grow too tall or it will
> be decapitated.

SA:  Maybe?  Or it does not have much growth to draw
from being in that tiny crack.

Dan G.:
> Similar plants growing beside the
> road gain a height of several inches. This plant
> though is only a couple millimeters tall. I thought
> perhaps it had been run over and that is why it is
> so short. On closer inspection though, I found the
> plant is completely intact. No breakage, no sign of
> trauma. Very strange. How does the plant know not to
> grow any taller?

SA:  Maybe it is what I mentioned, too, maybe not.

Dan G.: 
> When such marvels exist, how can anyone be bored?


SA:  I don't know.  I like dullness sometimes.  It is
quite enjoyable.  I don't like too much excitement and
hustle and bustle.  I love this hills where I live,
and when I go somewhere that is much more flat, it
takes some gettin' used to.  Over each new hill
something new is pronounced, and the previous valley
is totally gone except for memory.  In the flat, it is
more flat, more of the same, but soon in this flatness
the subtlest of its' significant pronouncements make
the hills I left to be almost overwhelming in their
aweness.  I don't think boredom is that terrible. 
That's what I mean by it depends on what you mean by
boredom.

I usually put woods here,
SA

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