Becoming a Boring Person and Living a Boring Life
I used to be a more fun, exciting person and live a more fun, exciting life. But in 2024, my life has been very boring.
Every day, I go to work. I go to school. I run. In my free time and on weekends, I study, clean, I run even more, and I go on dates with my wife, more often at home than anywhere else. I don’t do any of the novel or electric things I did in college, like go camping somewhere I never went before. I don’t go to cultural events or speaking engagements at my college arts center anymore.
Life didn’t become boring overnight. After college, I started my job as a special education teacher in Baltimore. Seven months later, COVID disrupted all our lives. I kept going on adventures and trips with my wife after we got vaccinated, the most exciting of which included visiting Amsterdam in the spring of 2022. I made other friends, including other runners, but also friends through teaching and friends through running.
It seems like every year, I made a series of decision or commitments that made my life a lot more boring. In 2020, I started my Master’s. In 2021, I started to commit a lot more time and energy to running marathons. In 2022, I started law school. Last year, my wife and I got married, which made…
