How long can you be bored for before it really starts getting to you.
I am so bored I thought of this question.
2006-08-26 04:20:49 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I don't understand boredom. There is always something to do. Obviously, if you can get on a computer, you are not locked in a cell with no possibility of anything to do. The options are endless! To me, boredom is a sign of mental laziness. Get off your butt and go do something nice for somebody else.
2006-08-26 04:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by just♪wondering 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who says boredom is a bad thing?
It's not enough for cellphones to be an electronic leash, now there is a plethora of "content" you can get for them. A young man on NPR was relating how, instead of having to read old magazines in the doctor's office, he can play a game. Now, he said, you don't have to get bored.
This is, of course, a huge loss.
When a daughter whined about being bored, she was told it was a wonderful thing. "Just think of all the wonderful things that happen when you're bored...."
"Like what?" she asked, taken aback.
"You'll see...."
We live most of our life rushing here, running there. When a chance comes to be by yourself, we are uncomfortable at first. We look for something, anything, to read: labels, signs, fine print. But as time stretches out beyond the available distractions, we learn things.
Small things connect in my mind. Long-gone ideas resurface, surprised at the silence. They scurry about in the quiet, leaving new thoughts in their wake. Fragments of songs come. Ideas for stories. Visions of solutions appear where none was a few minutes before.
Boredom is a gift, really. Like a seedling suddenly free of the shadow of an ancient oak, boredom becomes the open sky that lets our inner selves stretch and reach beyond our mental shadows. We rarely let ourselves get past the initial anxiety of having nothing to do, nothing to do but think.
When a generation grows up with no opportunity to be bored, it is being robbed of the gifts that arise only when we turn that corner of boredom and run into ourselves.
All we can wish for, is spotty cell coverage.
2006-08-26 04:46:47 · answer #2 · answered by shepardj2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think of boredom as a break for my mind. Some prefer yoga or other things you really HAVE to think about in a logical order. If I'm bored, I let my mind run with it for about an hour then I get up and do something like going for a drive.
2006-08-26 04:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by isabow27 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Boredom is one of the worst things that a person shuld experience. From time to time you will be bored (situational) but if you are bored all of the time then that is not good. If you are find a hobby or do a puzzle or make something. Just do something else. Except, of course, if you are a student and you are sitting in a classroom. That is your job and you need to find a way to excel at it.
2006-08-26 04:29:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Boredom is thinking time. Try thinking very deep thoughts, or reading about someone else's very deep thoughts, or if you get so bored that it starts to hurt, you can answer questions on Yahoo!
2006-08-26 04:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
think boredom is bad for mental health, I have been off work for a year since an operation that has not gone right and I am really bored.
2006-08-26 04:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by frankmilano610 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I should say that boredom is about the worst thing for mental health, its all right in small doses, but just think if you were on your own, seeing no one else for years, with no books, television, or such like, you would go MAD, so get out and do something, don't say there isn't anything, there is if you LOOK for it.
2006-08-26 04:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by amrhappy1 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Acute and chronic boredom can even trigger causes of fatal consequences.
Basically boredom is life negative.
Even logically, it is never justified, except by mutual consent
of two bore-bearers/borable people !
2006-08-26 04:43:04 · answer #8 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By watching the mechanics of the mind. You step out of its resistance patterns. And you can then allow the Present Moment to be. This will give you a taste of the state of Inner freedom.
2006-08-26 12:32:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is. Find something to do. Play a game, call a friend, watch TV, help your parents with something, and if you do help without being asked that will give you some brownie points with them. It's really nice for teenagers to do something around the house without having to beg them. If you have a animal play with it. listen to music, read the newspaper or a book. It's cool!
2006-08-26 04:28:57 · answer #10 · answered by Purple Passion 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋