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Breaking Free from Boredom and Drudgery0:58 – 4:26

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So if you are a parent or have been a parent, I guess if you have been a parent, you are a parent, but, and had elementary age kids, this first time back to school, there is both a, you know, a feeling of, oh, no, it's going to get so hectic now, and also this feeling of relief that you don't have the kids who are saying, I am so bored.

1:32

oh my god there is nothing to do and you know parents then say well there's something to do surely you can find go find something to do you know go play a game or something or then you maybe resort to i'll give you something to do right you finally but you and and then you have this horrible thing where the kids then say can i just have my ipad Let me just, can I have it just for an hour? Can I just play on my iPad? And you're like, no, no, no screens.

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We just, they're like, I just want to be entertained.

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I just want to be entertained.

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And here's the funny thing.

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Sometimes we never really grow out of that.

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We never really grow out of that and we find ourselves thinking, you know, we go through our lives and then we realize that we're kind of bored.

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And we anesthetize that boredom watching television, or something that sort of takes us out of the world in some way.

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Because it's not that life is terrible.

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It's not that something horrible is happening.

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It's that we just are kind of bored.

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Or maybe it's a step beyond that.

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There was a woman who, in 1866, her name was Eliza Sprote Turner.

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And she wrote a song that became an American folk song.

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It wasn't famous at all until the 1960s when Patty Duke recorded it, and it became a hit.

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And it's called A Housewife's Lament.

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Maybe you're familiar.

3:15

Life is a toil and love is a trouble.

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Beauty will fade and riches will flee.

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Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double and nothing is as I would wish it to be.

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And each verse is a comment about the drudgery of life and over and over and over again.

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And you think, oh, come on, now that's a little strong when you think about it.

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And yet, is there ever a moment in your life when you think, I'm kind of in a rut? I kind of do the same thing every day.

3:49

And I don't get a lot of pleasure from the things that I'm doing.

3:52

I'm just doing them.

Breaking Free from Boredom and Drudgery0:58 – 4:26

0:58

So if you are a parent or have been a parent, I guess if you have been a parent, you are a parent, but, and had elementary age kids, this first time back to school, there is both a, you know, a feeling of, oh, no, it's going to get so hectic now, and also this feeling of relief that you don't have the kids who are saying, I am so bored.

1:32

oh my god there is nothing to do and you know parents then say well there's something to do surely you can find go find something to do you know go play a game or something or then you maybe resort to i'll give you something to do right you finally but you and and then you have this horrible thing where the kids then say can i just have my ipad Let me just, can I have it just for an hour? Can I just play on my iPad? And you're like, no, no, no screens.

2:04

We just, they're like, I just want to be entertained.

2:06

I just want to be entertained.

2:09

And here's the funny thing.

2:11

Sometimes we never really grow out of that.

2:15

We never really grow out of that and we find ourselves thinking, you know, we go through our lives and then we realize that we're kind of bored.

2:26

And we anesthetize that boredom watching television, or something that sort of takes us out of the world in some way.

2:36

Because it's not that life is terrible.

2:39

It's not that something horrible is happening.

2:41

It's that we just are kind of bored.

2:46

Or maybe it's a step beyond that.

2:51

There was a woman who, in 1866, her name was Eliza Sprote Turner.

2:58

And she wrote a song that became an American folk song.

3:03

It wasn't famous at all until the 1960s when Patty Duke recorded it, and it became a hit.

3:10

And it's called A Housewife's Lament.

3:13

Maybe you're familiar.

3:15

Life is a toil and love is a trouble.

3:17

Beauty will fade and riches will flee.

3:20

Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double and nothing is as I would wish it to be.

3:27

And each verse is a comment about the drudgery of life and over and over and over again.

3:34

And you think, oh, come on, now that's a little strong when you think about it.

3:38

And yet, is there ever a moment in your life when you think, I'm kind of in a rut? I kind of do the same thing every day.

3:49

And I don't get a lot of pleasure from the things that I'm doing.

3:52

I'm just doing them.