The voice in the oubliette

I want to grow young

Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she will still predict no perils left to conquer. Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard of, while blasé princesses indict tilts at terror as downright absurd. The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump, compelling hero’s dull career to crisis; and when insouciant angels play God’s trump, while bored arena crowds for once look eager, hoping toward havoc, neither pleas nor prizes shall coax from doom’s blank door lady or tiger. SYLVIA PLATH http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n2/poetry/plath_s/ennui.htm

Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. "exhaustion and diminished interest":BOREDOM Boredom has defined by... C. D. Fisher: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.”[3] M. R. Leary: “an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes.”[4] Boredom arises not from a lack of things to do but from the inability to latch onto any specific activity. Nothing engages us, despite an often profound desire for engagement. Boredom (noun): tedium, (x) apathy, (x) doldrums, (x) weariness, (x) monotony, (x) dullness, (x) sameness, (x) ennui, (x) flatness, (x) world-weariness, (x) tediousness, (x) irksomeness (x) << OPPOSITE excitement (not at all) No es que no quiera ver a mis amigos, no es que haya querido perderme las fiestas del pitic yet again. Es simplemente