If life was perfect would it be boring?

Answer 1

It would be. The only reason people enjoy life is becasue there are obstacles, and with obstacles there ways to overcome them. Without obstacles in the way of you goals, life would be very boring to play. You could easily get anything you want.

Answer 2

I do understand what you mean, as if life was perfect and we had no real challenges people will be bored. Imagine a world where everything you want and need is there, you don't have to struggle for anything.

That's most people idea of perfect and it probably will be perfectly boring, because in all honesty it is the fact that we struggle that makes us appreciated what we gain and therefore makes us happy. For example if you've never been locked in and miserable on a cold rainy day, you'll never appreciate just how great it is to run around in the warm sun. So if the struggle was removed with it will leave the sense of achievement and victory that comes with it.

But then one can argue that if you are bored and so are experiencing discomfort the life isn't perfect, if were using this definition of perfect:

"being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish".

Because boredom will count as a defect or blemish. Therefore if life was perfect it wouldn't be boring, as the boredom means its imperfect therefore defeating the original point.

Answer 3

No. If life was perfect, we'd have a society with no strife that also is not boring. Granted, this may be an impossibility. Thus, when we say perfect, we often assume "it's perfect, except for those things that we think that would be wrong with it if there were no problems".

In short, if life was boring, it would inheritly be imperfect.

I read the first answer on this page, the one about completeness, and I have to say I agree: Vote that person.

Answer 4

While I was still in my teens I tried to jump across what seemed to be a narrow enough to jump across water fall. It wasn't, I fell and broke my leg. I'll never forget the wonderful feeling while being carried back to the car by my friends, laughing and telling jokes all the way and feeling quite safe and happy and thinking what a great life/friends I have. (humanity / a perfect world)
The things in life that cause pain and suffering are averis apathy and denial which inturn cause mans inhumanity to man which is fueled by symbolic value (money-control). There have been many societys like in my story, that lived in a humanity.
Many true American Indians lived that way. (no money no barter no trade) The need for money is only real because we are taught so. Money = the antidote for The Perfect World. I'm making a film about this very issue right now. Email me if you would like to know more cause there is of course a lot more.
Good Question!

Answer 5

Consider this:- only something that's complete can be perfect. If something is incomplete it cannot be perfect.

So perfection is always positive, it can never be negative. There can be no such thing as 'perfectly bad', because a perfectly bad thing would have to be completely incomplete - which is a contradiction.

Only 'nothing' could be completely incomplete (in fact, that's my definition of 'nothing' : - complete incompleteness).

Life is not nothing, it is something. So it can conceivably be perfect. A perfect thing can have no negatives, so perfect life would not be boring.

Answer 6

To answer your question, I have to modify the term Perfect, adding a capital "P". If life was Perfect, one would not be on this plane, but would be where Perfection exits. Perfection is an absolute, and absolutes only exist in the [NSgy] (Neutral Spiritual energy) realm. Also existing in that realm is absolute Love, Peace, Joy, etc. How boring would that be? Well, I suppose it depends upon how near one is to any of these? To me, such an existence would not be boring.

Answer 7

I think you have to really mess up a few times to have that perfect life. I define a perfect life as a life in which you are happy with yourself, and happy with living. Or in other words, look forward to every day, have support, and goals. In my opinion, as long as you have goals, and are willing to face the challenges to get through them, your life is as perfect as it can be. So no, it is not true that a perfect life is boring.

Answer 8

If my life was perfect, I would definitely not be bored.
Bored is a funny word, derived from bore, or ' to bore' a hole into something. So if I were bored, I still would not be perfect. I would have a hole to fill.

Answer 9

No. That's actually a form of consolation for our far from perfect lives; if your life is the way you want it to be, then you will be happy; if you're happy you're bored? That doesn't make sense.

Answer 10

That depends, if it had the propensity to become boring then it might appear as perfectly boring - in a perfect world everything is perfectly what it is and imperfectly what it isn't - clear?

Answer 11

I would say not, or else it couldn't be perfect. I reckon you'd just float along in an almost trance-like state of bliss. But would you call that living? I like variety in my life! Which reminds me, when am going to get some of that other stuff called happiness, fun, and the like? Well God? God?