As a general rule, all forms of act

As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this ____41____at work in people of all ____42____. For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about ____43____ with their new toys. But their ____44____ soon wears off and by January those ____45____ toys can be found put away in the basement. The world is full of ____46____ stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone’s ____47____ interest. When parents bring home a pet, their child ____48____ bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a short time, however, the ____49____ of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents. Adolescents enter high school with great ____50____ but are soon looking forward to ____51____. The same is true of the young adults going to college. And then, how many ____52____ , who now complain about the long drives to work, ____53____ drove for hours at a time when they first ____54____ their driver’s license? Before people retire, they usually ____55____ to do a lot of ____56____ things, which they never had ____57____ to do while working. But ____58____ after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they ____59____ . And, like the child in January, they go searching for new ____60____.