Ennui the people

 I was e-mailing someone at work today and made a sarcastic comment and they replied something about there is nothing like a little "existential ennui" on a Friday.  I like the way existential ennui we sounds but I have to confess I have never totally known what ennui is. ChattyGPT explained that it is a "profound, existential kind of boredom, where someone might feel wear or jaded due to monotony or a lack of meaningful activity. The term is often used to describe a sense of disillusionment or the fatigue that comes from a routine, unfulfilling life."

Okay, that more or less describes my unfulfilling work life. But it doesn't describe the joy I find creating t-shirt designs or flipping stuff I find at Goodwill for much more than paid for it (though right now my eBay career has stalled because no one seems to be buying vintage crap...I blame Trump). 

Now existential ennui cuts more into confronting the absurdity or meaninglessness of life. That just comes with old age (and don't let any geriatric Pollyanna tell you different). Though I couldn't stomach people with an overly positive outlook when I was young, either. 

And speaking of overly optimistic points of view, I went to a Titanic exhibit a couple of days ago in downtown Seattle. For some reason I have always been fascinated by the Titanic.  It was the largest floating object ever built at the time and was supposed to be unsinkable. And what happens on its maiden voyage? It hits an iceberg and sinks. Isn't that ironic, Alanis?

 And many of the third class passengers on the Titanic were originally booked on another ship and got transferred over at the last minute because of problems with their original ship.  So how sucky is that? The only suckier thing would be the people who booked the most expensive cabin on the ship which they said would cost about $80,000 in todays money. Lot of good that splurge did them. 

Oh well...

Well, in some places, it can, but look at the bright side...