Posted by Susan47 on September 7, 2004, at 14:51:20
An announcer on one of our local radio stations just said that she and her husband were like sardines in a school gymnasium waiting out a hurricane for 26 hours. She said it was boring, and right away I thought how unfortunate for her: how could a situation like that be boring? I could write a whole book on the people around me; their looks at each other, the little squabbles over irritations. Who's related to who and how? What might so-and-so's ancestry be and why do I think that? Oh, the one I thought mother and son are really aunt and adopted newphew; I heard her talking about his mother, her sister, in rehab. I mean, stuff like that, you know?
I don't mean to say that it would be a physically comfortable situation at all, not in the least, and I'm learning to be a person who really cares about physical comfort for the first time (finally slowed down on walking and bumping into things, yay!!!). But (preposition, sorry) what about the human drama, all the little things that make human stories similar? What about finding myself a bit in this person here, that person over there, and the little girl curled up over there? (Ew ew ew, this sounds like therapy!)
I mean I really find that fascinating, and having a chance to observe many different types of people in a stressful situation like that, where it's hard if not impossible to hide your *true self*, would *not* be *boring*. A lot of other things, yes. But *boring*? My definition of boring is the person who feels that way isn't very interesting. No offense intended to anyone. At all.
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