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A filler. In the context of Primary Teaching, a filler is defined as some menial task assigned to children to keep them quiet for a few minutes until you have time to deal with them. There probably isn't any massively beneficial educational aspect to it but it serves a purpose.
In quite a different context- the context of relationships, a filler can also be described as a person with whom you spend time during the period where it is not possible to have the person you would rather be with. Again, this filler has very little actual value for you in any kind of an emotional or long-term sense, but once again, they serve a purpose.
It may not always be black and white however in the human filler world. Unfortunately people do not always advertise the fact that it is indeed no more than a filler they're looking for and the unassuming victim may get a nasty shock when they realise what they have become. There are times though when there is a choice. In the grand scheme of things,who wants to be a filler? Instead of being a photocopied, uninspiring, chunky-outlined page from a colouring book, I'd much rather be a blank piece of paper with the potential to be adorned and explored and treasured and even possibly stuck up on the wall and kept and admired for a long time.*
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