quote on boredom

Good quote from the New Yorker:

"Being bored doesn't mean that 'there's nothing to do,' as children imprecisely complain to their parents on a rainy day, dragging their feet on the rug and kicking the sofa. It means that something big -- whether it's rain, other people, or our own hot-to-the-touch fears -- is keeping us from doing what we want to do, from playing outside, from expressing ourselves, from moving forward."

- Nancy Franklin, "Patients, Patients (review of HBO's 'In Treatment')", Feb 4, 2008, p. 78