Show the bored are boring people of outstanding personality are interested and never blase ayoung young people of today a 1 mother writes seem to regard it as a sign of immaturity or weakness to be thrilled wi with t h anything their i idea d e a of s sophistication 0 is to appear bored with everything the having done all seen all attitude that finds it very difficult to be impressed with anything it is most annoying to find that anything you can offer them for a good time seems to be inadequate that the thrills of your own youth cannot be repeated for them it seems to me they miss a great deal I 1 would point out to this mother says a woman writer of international note that naturally we cannot expect that the thrills of our youth will equally impress the young people of this day so much that came to us gradually as colorful experiences are a part of their daily background but there is something definitely true in what she says of a pose of a deliberate care never to seem impressed of a pretense at doing being bored it may interest such young people to know that that super sophisticate G K X chesterton said there are no bores only people jhc are arc bored in other words there can be nothing interesting about a person who is bored that akes us right down to a bedrock fact that can be observed if we will note people of ing personality people whom everybody finds interesting without exception they will be people who arc vit vitally al i y i interested nt er e s t ed they are never ver b bored 0 r ed n never e v e r blase they are able to give out what interests others because through their interest in things and people about them they are constantly taking in their main charm is a certain aliveness a vitality which has absolutely no relationship with being bored 0 bell syndicate service |