There are a lot of articles that give advice on what to do and what not to do. There seems to be an accumulation of articles on things you should never do.
How about this one: Never be dull and gloomy unnecessarily
How would you know someone who is like this (or maybe yourself)?
Quora says (or rather probably taken from a Psychology Today article on the subject) that the traits of a dull person are: negativity, superficial, impassive, self-centred and predictable. But they keep using the word boring rather than dull. In fact, Assistant Bot says a lot about dullness:
Lack of enthusiasm
Limited interests
Poor conversational skills
Low energy
Lack of humor
Predictability
Resistance to change
There's a correlation between dull and boring dull is a characteristic of the person and born his the effect the person has on you. That works quite well, doesn't it.
One of the important things in life is supposedly for us to never be dull or boring. I consider some of the following much more important. "Never" :
wear cheap shoes that don't fit
never call young women "aunty"
never smile at strangers in Russia
never drive the golf cart ahead of the group
never touch and move things around in someone else's house
never cut your food into bite-sized pieces all at once
never arrive late for a funeral or leaving before the end of the service
never arrive more than 30 minutes early to a wedding (supposedly they are still getting ready) and
never dress like the bride/bridesmaid on purpose
There are lots and lots of things that we can do wrong and be really sorry for. These are just a few items. Soperhaps life's advice is to forget the big things like never "lie to yourself", "neglect your health" or "be scared to love again".
Should never be dull or boring be included in the list? You get to decide.
