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As I have gotten older, I have noticed a lot of people conflate 'boring' and 'stable.' One of my friends who would air a complaint that everyone is 'so boring'
by FigurativeVoid 4y ago
As I have gotten older, I have noticed a lot of people conflate 'boring' and 'stable.'
One of my friends who would air a complaint that everyone is 'so boring' is the same person that can't hold a job and still uses all sorts of drugs. When I was young, I would find myself attracted to potential partners even if they lacked stability. Now I can't even imagine that.
Stability is a great thing to have in life, but the price you pay for stability is having a plan and knowing what comes next. That might make it boring, but I'll make that trade every time.
Edit: spelling
- bilbo0s 4y agoThat might make it boring, but I'll make that trade every time I was just musing below that evolutionary pressures have very likely conditioned all humankind to make that trade every time. The great advantage of "boring" social groupings is stability. Humans have discovered over the millennia that "lively" or "outraged" groupings find lots of adventure, but don't last very long.
- randomdata 4y agoStable is boring when stable reflects what has been done time and time again. Interestingness requires novelty. Someone who seeks stability in living on the moon and has a plan to make it happen would be hard to call boring – until many more people follow the same blueprint, at which point it too will become boring.