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Okay, sheedie70, here's some insight:

You stated you were bored, as if that were a bad thing. First, in the words of Graham Green, "Only boring people get bored." Now, if that didn't put you off, I've got more.

Daniel Gilbert in his book, Stumbling On Happiness , says that bored people are generally happy. Think about that. If one is bored, is one feeling any other negative emotion such as fear or anxiety? Not bloody likely. We feel bored by redundancy, or knowing what to expect. There's some security in feeling bored.

Exciting or interesting is not always fun. Excitement is stimulating, causing our sympathetic nervous system to kick in, adrenals to excrete, dialating our pupils and bronchials, quickening the heartbeat, raising our blood pressure, and affecting us in other ways. Sounds rather stressful on the ol' bod, doesn't it?

Now, when we're relaxed, or bored, if you will, our parasympathetic nervous system is in play and body functions are in a homeostatic pace. We go about our business, sometimes not even having to use our gray matter in order to carry out our tasks. Sounds rather even keeled, doesn't it?

But I understand your concern: Atrophy through disuse. If we're not stimulated, our dendrites are gonna slow down their connections to other various neurons. We can even lose information and inhibit our intellectual growth.

So what's a body to do? There's always the obtion of blooming were you're planted. Surely not EVERYTHING in your present situation is a total doldrum. There's always room for improvement and growth in any situation. Expend energy on that aspect.

Oh well. For whatever it's worth.

Dave