Tackling boredom (my way) (without too much philosophical thought):

- facebook (used to be, now quit it for examination reasons)
- blogs on the nets
- cooking and eating good food
- constantly listening to music and dancing and singing to it
- hanging out with friends
- going out to enjoy the sun or the rain
- doing sports by myself or friends
- having a nap
- fantasise about people and things (lol, how embarrassing!)
- do jumping jacks (very rare do I do it)
- do revision (for exams, if you are at school or university)
- do homework (if you are at school or university)
- do work (if you are working)
- go shopping (online or otherwise)
- decide to randomly travel right now (far far away, preferably into another country)
- read (preferably philosophy and/or arts)
- eat vitamins

and my favourite of all:

- blindfold your crush and hug them from behind for 10 seconds and then tell them you love them and then quietly walk away



You see, I am rarely bored.

interest and boredom are the only 2 rooms to escape with:
if you are bored you find interest
if you are interested you find boredom

---------- Post added 04-18-2010 at 04:36 PM ----------

Just follow this step:

A --> B --> C (Cycle)

---------- Post added 04-18-2010 at 04:43 PM ----------

lets imagine you are playing with boredom. he will try to catch you and you will try to run away from him.
Imagine you go to interest A
as boredom enters it
Go to interest B and
as boredom enters it
Go to interest C and
as boredom enters it
Go back again to interest A
Where the presence of boredom is totally gone

just repeat the cycle, boredom cannot catch you.

---------- Post added 04-18-2010 at 04:53 PM ----------

So what to do if one has boredom?
- then escape it
Is it a need to try harder or try something different?
- go to place where he is not present
Is it the need to rest or is it the need to be lazy?
- depends on you, you are trying to escape boredom right? then go the place where he is not present.
Boredom the cure of the affliction? the affliction of the cure?
- the affliction of the cure, you will not escape to him if not.
Do you think over stimulation can lead to the disinterest? rise then fall?
- boredom forever haunts you, if you stay their for too long, the more boredom will be nearer with you, the only choice is to escape out of his presence and that is to find more interest.
How can you stay interested all the time?
- he haunts for you forever then run out of his presence forever.

I am bored tonight,
It does not assist me,

So thought i would open a thread on boredom.

I do not always think it is activity based, you can have much to do and still be bored.

So what to do if one has boredom?

Is it a need to try harder or try something different?
(I dont see how becuase tomorrow i will probably be here and not bored)
(i have many interests and just 'cant be bothered')
Is it the need to rest or is it the need to be lazy?

Insert interseting question here, i am even to bored to find any.

Boredom the cure of the affliction? the affliction of the cure?

Do you think over stimulation can lead to the disinterest? rise then fall?
(could it be physical?)

How can you stay interested all the time?

This country should have draft.

I like it that way, personally, it means the road less traveled is rarely crowded.

You see, I am rarely bored.

Boredom is simply a form of craving. Our consumer society covertly encourages the feeling of boredom, because if you are bored you are more likely to buy something, seek out entertainment, or contribute to the consumer economy in some way. Whereas if you don't need entertainment and are content with life's simple joys, you're less likely to be part of what the marketing types would ID as a 'target demographic'.

---------- Post added 04-21-2010 at 07:43 PM ----------



you have enough trouble re-integrating volunteers....

I find myself getting bored with things from time to time. Usually I can simply find something else to do. There is always something to learn, some new path to explore, new people to meet. The only time boredom is a problem is when I am too lazy to do anything about it, and then there's always that nap to take.

Jeeprs is right about our consumer society, most people want to be, demand to be, entertained. From the moment they awake, til the time they sleep. People want to be entertained, and when the new wears off they want something else.
I like it that way, personally, it means the road less traveled is rarely crowded.

If you are happy and content, then just sitting around isn't boring. I think you have to be a bit unhappy to be bored. So there's two solutions:

1) Find something to do that occupies your time.
2) Become more happy and content

Number 1 is easy, but unsatisfying at the end of the day. Number 2 works way better, but is much more difficult.

Try for number 2.

I believe a lot of our problems, like boredom, really just come down to one thing. Personal responsibility, we live in a society that has been geared to look for the quick fix. To realise my responsibility, in the matter of my life, is empowering.

This experience I am having right now, this very moment, is my life. Whether I choose to enjoy it, is entirely up to me.

Take a walk, go for a drive, go knock on your friend's dusty door and say "How are you?", tend your yard, read a book, fix something that's broken, break something whose usefulness is gone, turn off your lights and light a candle, shut off your computer, go pet your cat or dog-if you don't have one, go adopt!, walk along your street and pick up the trash, go downtown and watch people-imagining how each might be thinking, wait till nighttime and alone in your yard count the stars, clean up a closet, arrange your garage, grab some bread from your cabinet and go find some birds to feed, go fishing-or just hang your feet in the water, find a tree and climb it just to remember what it felt like, dig a hold and fill it up again, see how long you can go-to stimulate your mind-without any computer, television or electronics, find a pond, river or lake and skip stones, go outside and look at a bird then come back in and try to figure out what kind it is-from where it comes or goes, etc.

So boredom is lazyness?

Boredom is your own responsibility, could'nt agree with you more.

But is happiness or even contentment your own responsibility?