On Walpurgisnacht, this happened.

I am bored.

So very bored.

Not that my life's empty and devoid of things; on the contrary, there are lots of things that should occupy my interest right now. Well, that proves it. It's all in the mind.

But honestly, for some reasons which are currently unknown to me, I am suddenly losing interest in most of the things in life.

Not all things, though.

Food. Food is one thing that still excites me. (No wonder I'm fat.) I love the way food feels and, most of the time, tastes. Is food beneficial? In some certain quantities, sure. In excess, maybe not so much. But that's the way it is.

While I'm skirting the subject here, let me comment on something that's been on my mind for some time. Ever thought why most glasses nowadays have bases that are smaller in diameter than the rims are? I find it somewhat annoying sometimes. Perhaps not downright annoying, more like... an itch, maybe. I mean, really, why? Does it make the glass more stable? Common sense says 'no'. More pleasing aesthetically? Depends on the individual using it, and I'm sure opinions are divided. Maybe they're made that way to mislead the user on the subject of liquid amount. When the glass is full, the user sips, and the liquid level falls to some degree. No problem there. But then the user sips again, presumably in the same volume as the previous sip, and the liquid level drops again, but this time it drops more due to the difference in the circumference of the glass. To what effect? I don't know. Maybe it creates - at the commencement of the drinking - an illusion that the glass is containing more than it really does? Again, I don't know.

Ah. Or maybe, maybe, the glass is shaped that way because liquid pours better from that shape? Or that shape is easier to clean? Or it's easier to store (being more space-efficient)? Probably one of those, yeah.

Sigh. It's halfway solved. As usual, with mundane and uninteresting explanations.

Back to my boredom.

Of course, at least two highly intelligent (fictional) characters get really bored. I'm talking about Light Yagami (from the manga 'Deathnote') and Sherlock Holmes (created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and has been portrayed by various people, most recently by Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC series 'Sherlock'). Naturally, I identify with them. Oh yes. I consider myself highly intelligent, certainly. I have an ego the size of... me. Which, as suggested above, is quite large in terms of spatial measurements.

Maybe that's the problem? Too big an ego? Creating the mindset that the world is simply not enough for me, ergo, boredom?

Not my problem.

God, I think Your job now is to show me the real world in all its majesty and glory so that even I, the great I, am humbled.

Shouldn't be too hard for You, I think.