I’ve got a new column up at the Huffington Post (it was originally part of UCF Today‘s “Forum” series, and it’s also been re-printed at Context Florida).
Follow this link to get to Huff Po, and give me a like/share/comment if you dig the column. Here’s the opening:
“When We Say We’re Bored, What Are We Really Saying About Ourselves?”
In late August, three teenagers in Oklahoma targeted and killed a random jogger for no other reason than because they were bored. The story is heartbreaking, maddening, and chilling, and it’s made even more so by their explanation: boredom.
Were these kids really saying that their own entertainment was the most important thing in the world, more important than other lives?
The more I thought about the story, the more I moved beyond my repulsion at just these three teens and considered the word “boredom” itself, how quickly we all employ it, but how little we deserve to use it.
Nathan Holic 