End of Boredom. Day 1: Warm-Up

Boredom has struck again. Despite how busy my days seem to be, I constantly find myself dissatisfied, unchallenged, and flat-out bored. A few friends of mine have taken to doing monthly or daily "things" to take a picture of, or post about, or simply experience on a regular basis. I don't fancy myself an artist, but I do like the idea of being given ideas for things to do, especially things I've not done before.

So that's how I arrived here today, on this blog, with a book called This Book Will Change Your Life. Epic sounding, I know. When I first glanced at the title, I assumed it would be a common-sense, self-help-esque pile of boring things that wouldn't change my life at all. And besides, I'm not out to change my life. Just looking for things to do to cure my boredom. Curiosity took over, though, and I began flipping through it. And I must admit that I'm intrigued. The book is essentially 365 tasks for you to do and then write about your experience. But they're not just any old simple task, or tasks that seem to be couched in psycho-babble. In fact, it's rather humorous, and I immediately decided to buy the book and give it a try.

The ground rules: The book is laid out in such a way as to do a different task each day and write about it. The idea is that by the end of a calendar year, you'll have changed, and in the process documented those changes. I'll not be following the "every day" requirement. If I were to do that, then I'd be more likely to cut corners or simply not accomplish a task. And not doing tasks defeats the entire purpose. The deadline will also add stress to this activity, when all I want it for is my personal amusement. So my rule will be that I will do these 365 tasks to the best of my ability, as close to in order as possible, when I have the time. I'll read step one, and then do step one at my earliest convenience. I will then write about it on here, thus documenting and reflecting on the experience.

This is the beginning. Day 1. The Warm-up.

Today a list was given of a variety of things to choose to do that are considered "easy." They are. And, in fact, I've already done most of the options given, so I chose: Decide which one of your toes is the prettiest.

Deciding which toe was prettiest was difficult!! At first I thought it would be the big toe on my right foot, but the more I looked, I began to find beauty in all of them. I've never been a huge fan of feet, and at present, my toenails aren't trimmed and are looking rough, but the more I looked at them, the more I liked them. In the end, I've decided that the middle toe on my left foot is the prettiest. It doesn't have a weird angle to it like some of the others, it's not too big, it's not too small, and it also looks the happiest. If that's a thing. 

If I could figure out how to put an arrow to the middle toe, I would. But you can still see it here in all its glory.

Day 1: Success.
Changes: A greater appreciation of my toes