Boredom

It's times like these where you almost believe you have ceased to exist. Of course I am talking about boredom. There's a saying that "An idle mind is a devil's workshop". Well, I wouldn't really mind the devil working in my mind but it seems that even he's got sick of the boredom, of the thick cobwebs i my mind. Let me reason to justify my boredom. - how many tennis matches (Wimbledon) can a person watch in a day? = Not too many I would imagine. - how long can a person read a book in an entire day? = I like reading, but if I read a book for one entire day, I would consider myself sublimely gifted in the art of reading books... no can do! - how long can one try to learn how to play the guitar? = 2 hours of patient learning is all that I can manage really... and that too I "try". - now comes the stinging question: can a person repeat these actions for 7 consecutive days?? Sadly the answer is "yes" but only if that person were "paid" to do so!! I'm not... Times like this you're hoping that your friends come to the rescue. Unfortunately, the same friends whom you'd treat to ice creams on any given occasion, the same friends you'd talk to all day, grinning and grimacing, the friends you'd share your deepest secrets with... they disappear. It's like some kind of natural law that none of the great people like Newton or Einstein ever managed to predict. They were all too busy making up their hair and solving mind boggling physics to ponder on matters so insignificant. They made friends with their brains and fame. I do not possess fame, I possess a layman's brain. Back to belief, "A friend in need is a friend indeed" ... how SO NOT QUAINT ... from what I'm experiencing it may go something like this "A friend in need, is a friend in need of doing a deed" ... I know, definitely not your modern day Tenali Raman but fortuantely the freedom of speech and expression has been granted to the citizens of India, and I made complete use of it. Onto a few more poems then... Cheerio, hoping to get rid of "Boredom" the new form of plague!!!