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— A doctor will tell you, boring life is the best life. A successful person will tell you, boring time is the best time.
A man felt sick. He went to see his doctor. The doctor checked on him with a serious face. The man was a bit nervous. He asked the doctor, “am I okay? How bad is it?”
“You are okay,” said the doctor, his voice dry and slow. The man got panic. He kept asking, “Can I survive? How long can I live?” The doctor got irritated. He stopped checking and asked the man, “Do you smoke?”
“No.”
“Do you drink?”
“No.”
“Do you love women?”
“Hell no.” The man raised his voice. He was glad the doctor had asked these questions. He’d got all the right answers. He couldn’t wait for the doctor to say “you are alright, then.”
But the doctor even got more serious. He asked the man, “you don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t love women. Why do you live, then? Your life is boring like a hell.”
This joke is probably older than my age. I came across it in my mind last month when I sat across the table from my doctor. I was doing my annual physical check. All lab data was in the range, all the checkboxes of health issues were marked “no”. In the end, the doctor looked at the computer with a dull face. He seemed to have run…
