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Boredom is the instigator of vices
Sometimes life gets boring. My life gets boring and I have things to do more or less all the time. In these moments I have this horrible habit of falling into bad vices. It goes to show that certain habits are in me no matter what I do in life.
I give addicts so much credit for getting off whatever they were on, I can’t even resist a reasonably priced doughnut.
Things that I think I’ve moved on from come back whenever there is nothing to do, and it’s not always a long period of boredom, sometimes it’s only a few hours.
I am not the person I thought I grew into, I still have a long way to go. I don’t think it’s healthy to be busy all the time, boredom is important, but it leaves me with a big problem to face and an interesting question.
What would I be doing with my life if I didn’t have to work so much?
What vices come back
In my last post, I spoke about porn, and that’s something I look at when I’m bored. Procrastination is where porn comes up too. I can’t do that thing right now as I need to jerk off. As if.
I comment on posts online, although I do this to promote my business online as well. Sometimes I’ll write a comment in boredom and the next thing I know I’m in a full-on conversation about race relations with the…