I think there's a substantial difference between "Go on with your life, mindful of the changes in the world" and "Be annoyed because other people are still focused on a major national event, and you're bored because the world isn't conforming to your desires because of this other stuff."
I don't have a whole lot of patience with "I'm bored, but I don't want to do anything about it" attitude *anyway*, though. (Bored and admitting you're not fixing the problem because you feel lazy, ok. Doing stuff other people find boring but that interests you, fine. Whinging about it because no one's amusing you, not so fine.)
I've been sort of feeling the same thing about this "go on with life" "be mindful" dichotomy, watching the high school kids cope. (It has seemed to produce them being more considerate of at least the library staff, oddly...)
Mostly, I've come to the conclusion that there's a difference between *ignoring* what happened and the relevant consequences, and saying "Yes, it happened, it's going to keep affecting reality, but there's other stuff out there too, and I want to keep balance."
For me, that's been listening to the radio driving home from work, and then coming in and turning on Sabrina or the Simpsons, as a way to remind me that silliness matters as much as solemnity, in the grand orchestration of the world.
But maybe I don't have such a high tolerance for people who only find a small number of things interesting/non-boring, and so my solutions won't work for everyone. (I mean, I know I'm far out on the polymath and polymath-wannabe side of the spectrum, but I didn't think the other side was quite that singleminded about what amused them as it sometimes looks like.)
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Date: 2001-09-21 10:41 am (UTC)I don't have a whole lot of patience with "I'm bored, but I don't want to do anything about it" attitude *anyway*, though. (Bored and admitting you're not fixing the problem because you feel lazy, ok. Doing stuff other people find boring but that interests you, fine. Whinging about it because no one's amusing you, not so fine.)
I've been sort of feeling the same thing about this "go on with life" "be mindful" dichotomy, watching the high school kids cope. (It has seemed to produce them being more considerate of at least the library staff, oddly...)
Mostly, I've come to the conclusion that there's a difference between *ignoring* what happened and the relevant consequences, and saying "Yes, it happened, it's going to keep affecting reality, but there's other stuff out there too, and I want to keep balance."
For me, that's been listening to the radio driving home from work, and then coming in and turning on Sabrina or the Simpsons, as a way to remind me that silliness matters as much as solemnity, in the grand orchestration of the world.
But maybe I don't have such a high tolerance for people who only find a small number of things interesting/non-boring, and so my solutions won't work for everyone. (I mean, I know I'm far out on the polymath and polymath-wannabe side of the spectrum, but I didn't think the other side was quite that singleminded about what amused them as it sometimes looks like.)