The boy sits at his table sharpening a pencil.
“This is so boring” he says to no one in particular.
The girl next to him is writing. She looks up at
him and says,
“Yes, I know. Writing is also boring.”
The teacher stops by.
“Hello, what are the two of you doing?”
“We are learning good handwriting” they both answer.
The teacher looks at the girl’s book.
“That’s so beautiful. If you think of them as patterns and
not words, it’s such a great design.”
The girl and the boy look at the book. The girl is proud of
her work.
“Yes, but it’s boring” says the boy.
“What is?” asks the teacher, kindly.
“This – sharpening the pencil and writing” says the boy.
“Why?” questions the teacher.
“Just so. It’s so boring” says the boy.
The girl gets back to her writing again.
She looks at the boy and says, “You are always bored. You know what? I think you are boring.”
“See?” says the teacher “When you are bored all the time,
people think that YOU are boring. I stopped using that word many years ago and
now everything I do is interesting.”
The pencil is sharpened and the boy gets back to his writing
again.
