Bored?

Besides the phrases "Why"and "No" the phrase I hear most from kids is "I'm bored". I hate to hear kids say this, I hated hearing friends say this as a kid, and frankly I don't ever remember being bored. Our culture seems deeply focused on the idea of being entertained. It's early Friday evening...you're home from work...and you pick up the phone to call a friend. The first thing that comes out of your mouth- What are you up to tonight? What are we gonna do? Our constant entertainment is growing up generations of people who are entertained for moments but for the rest of life they are...bored. What about you- are you bored? Be honest for a second- Do you like your life, your 40+ hours a week working for the man or woman? A while back my brother JR and I saw the Will Ferrell flick "Stranger than Fiction" and had various discussions about it. I loved it. It didn't bore me at all in fact. The story revolves around the idea of a guy working a boring job living a boring life around boring people. I don't know if you've seen this flick, but I'd recommend it now or sometime in the future when you happen to be bored and you're at Blockbuster. Is there more than a zombie walking through a monotonous life doing some dead-end job in some cubicle somewhere? The only thing worse than little ankle-biting zombies running around are grown up zombies stumbling around through life. Is there more beneath the predictable routine...I think so.