May you lead an interesting life

I want to be bored. No, really, I think it would be great if I could be bored. Life has been to interesting lately. Everything from a bubbling paint job on my car to getting thrown from my horse into a metal fence panel...and many things in between. Some of my friends say I just attract trouble.

Hmmm, well, that's all I seem to attract.

I think it all began when I made the mistake of informing my mother that I was "bored"...I think I was about 10 years old. Its ok for 10 yr olds to make mistakes, right? Oh, boy, was that ever a mistake! Dear Mother gave me a list of about 20 things I could do to keep me from being bored...and made me do all of them. I haven't been bored since.

Does that make it my Mother's fault that I can't get a boring life? Yes, that's what I should do! Blame my problems on my parents! Ah, that won't work, I've been out of the house for too long now. I really am pretty self-sufficient.

When it comes to assigning blame, can I really blame myself? I don't think so. I'm not actively seeking trouble...and I definitely want an even keel in my life.

I think I've been cursed. Cursed to lead an interesting life.