Do something

Do Something – Do Anything!

It doesn’t matter what. Just do it, right?!

Anthems for action. Action calls for Activity – but is it just activity for Activity’s sake? And who is this “Activity” anyway, and why should we do anything for someone that we are not familiar with?

How about.. WAIT. STOP.

Yeh, there’s a grand plan for world domination. Hurry up and wait. Don’t wait! Don’t just wait – stop! Yep. That’s our version of a pathway to success. World domination should be tackled in small bites, right?

Exercise your existentialist right for angst

Yet questions of world domination do dredge up wider thoughts on life, purpose and meaning. Any serious thinker would embark down one or more of these rancid, effortful pathways prior to relieving the sofa of bottom-weight. Actually, serious thinking is pretty hard work. Maybe we’ll just leave it as a question of focus and relative value on where attention is best directed for maximum output for a minimal input.

That’s about it. We don’t want to progress too far into our efforts at existentialism. We’ve got to allow time for our slower thinkers to catch up. After all, we are above all other things, bored. Sure, we’re also online, but any such activity measurement is vastly exceeded by our inability to retain focus and interest on anything more involved than a gnat’s Friday afternoon musings on life, the universe and everything.

It’s not that we’re just disinterested or out of our depth or mildly catatonic or helplessly inefficient or randomly incapable. None of that. We are Bored.

Is being online and bored actually doing something?

Online and bored. And that’s a harder version of bored than that which existed in days gone by. Didn’t know that, did you? It’s a massively underappreciated fact that modern boredom exceeds past boredom thresholds by multiples. True fact. There’s a study somewhere that proves it. Probably.

Looked at from a wildly different perspective, we can conceive that sometimes, there is no perspective at all. Life can be quite random like that. Here’s an example…

Were you to be bored in the times of your grandfather then you would simply run down the street to a friend’s house or wander off to the local park or playground. If you were older then there would be the local stream or river or hill lookout. Older again and you would head off to the local watering hole for a refreshing bevvy or six.

At the least, no matter what your age, you’d track down a cigarette and have a puff. Just because you were bored. Well, you might have been wanting to impress friends or annoy teachers or show a bit of rebellion to your parents but puffing on a cigarette was a way of dealing with boredom.

But it is not earlier times, and we know that if you smoke you’ll get cancer and die or some such thing, so smoking is out.

Alcohol is supposed to be used responsibly, so you can’t drive home from the local bar or pub so there’s no point going there. For some reason employers don’t like drunk employees representing them to the buying public, so you can’t hit the bottle at work. You could hang around the work kitchen or water fountain or photocopier but let’s face it, you work with those people already – they ceased being exciting quite some time ago.

But what will i do?

Let’s start with the obvious. You are online, and you are bored. Well, so are we. We’ve been sitting here, trying to think up clever and witty entertainments and whimsy but frankly, we’re bored too.

And we are also online. So no matter how bored you may be, we share your pain.

Power to the Online and Bored, brother!

And sisters. No such thing as a gender gap or glass ceiling the world of online boredom. It’s a pretty equal world we inhabit in our bleary-eyed state of boredom.

Do something you’ve done before.

It’s easier. Minimal need for creative thinking and maximum output per joule of energy expended.

To shine the pathway to your glorious future of prodigious output, we present this post. Ta-Da!

Sharp-eyed and anal retentive readers will notice that this post looks rather similar to a page that once inhabited this site. Said page is now a post, and Voila!

Bigger output for minimum input. If you’re going to be doing something, do less of it. That’s our motto – or it would be if we had one, which we don’t.

In fact, we’re thinking that repeating past notes is pretty darn effective, and we’ll be doing it again. Later. Some time. Not now, of course. One day. Maybe.

Do something about grammar

Not really. We don’t care. But it is fun to look at how a post, such as this one, fails most of the tests for being good social media fodder. There’s no obligation to do something, but it’s fun to see what you should be doing, when your aren’t doing it. In an effort to boost our word count, we’re going to include the Analysis results for the post so far..

Analysis results…

Consecutive sentences: The text contains 3 consecutive sentences starting with the same word. Try to mix things up! Subheading distribution: 1 section of your text is longer than 300 words and is not separated by any subheadings. Add subheadings to improve readability. Passive voice – use active counterpart.

Nup. Of course, we’re not going to do any of those things. It’s perfectly fine, just the way it is. After all, if we make it too good then more people might read it, leading to questions and suggestions and stuff like that. Ewwww.

We’ve covered this whole SeO business before, of course. Reduction in energy expended requires that we have. Yet, SeO remains a force for good – maybe – so we’re including an internal link as well. Just because Master SeO tells us to.

Here’s a link to an earlier post on the avoidance of SeO imperatives. We make no warranty as to its suitability or quality or accuracy or even attractiveness. We certainly make no claim as to its suitability upon which to base the ending of a post asking you to do something. That would just be plain wrong.

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