Is Philosophy boring?

Just a quick thought.

Many people are baffled by how philosophers could wonder at something so boring as a philosophical theory. I was reading 'Metaphors We Live By' by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, a groundbreaking work on the phenomenon of metaphor and how pervasive it is in language ('groundbreaking' is a geographical metaphor, 'work' is a carpentry metaphor, 'in' is a spatial container metaphor, etc . . .).

At one point, the authors are talking about how the metaphor of a Building structures the meaning in a bunch of talk about Theories. Buildings are visible; Theories are not. Metaphors explain the less obvious using the more obvious - and visible things are more obvious than invisible things.

One metaphor they talk about caught my eye and may serve to explain the wonder that philosophers feel as they explore (thinking is a Journey metaphor, wink!) various philosophical theories:

Remember, this is a variation on the simplistic: Your theory is a Building.

"His theory has thousands of little rooms and long, winding corridors."

I love that! Can't you just picture a child, filled with wonder, getting lost in all the hallways, each hallway filled with doors leading to various rooms, each of which has the key to one element in the overall understanding of an idea! It has the feel of a fairy tale.