Sunday, February 21, 2010

The creativity of boredom and negativity

There are often a lot of thoughts that go through my head when I am bored. There are a lot more thoughts that go through my head when I am sad, frustrated, stressed and surrounded by negativity.
It is strange why I am writing this today. I don't have a particular objective to attain. I am just bored and out of boredom the subject of this article crept into my head.
I had quite a bad day yesterday. I was irritated with a few issues. But, what outcome did the irritation have?
I wrote a poem which I consider as one of my best. I wrote an article which I thought was pretty good. I did some self introspection which I thought was necessary.
It is often said that life is a bittersweet symphony. We often are so engrossed in the moment during the sweetness that we don't realize just how fast it passes by. The bitterness lasts because its taste lingers. Try just one or two drops of lime on your tongue as compared to a rosogulla. Most people will want more of the rosogulla than the lime. Just endorses the fact that bitterness lingers on; even a small bout of
it.
The human race is known to be a pessimist as well as an optimist. The optimist built Titanic, the pessimist designed the life jacket. In this scenario the pessimist won. A balance of both is needed. Being over optimistic is not good whereas being over pessimistic is disastrous.
It is difficult to remember the sweet more than the bitter because the bitter is what pinches; the bitter is what sours. But, the bitter can also spark that array of creativity. It does for me and eventually rids me of the bitterness.

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