with all the things the world has to offer how is it possible for humans to invent boredom?

Answer 1

becuase god got bored waiting for us to grow up so he paid us back

Answer 2

Schopenhauer believed that human life alternated between the two poles of striving for an end and, when that end is attained, boredom. This is too simplistic, but we do need ends and purposes. However, an inability to select which end from a potentially infinite array means that individuals fail to exercise their capacity as goal-directed agents. Furthermore, the institutional structures of modern bureaucratic society, which house many possible ends, impose monotonous, routine demands on individuals. This stifles individual creativity, reduces the self to a cog in a machine, and leads to boredom.

Another cultural explanation is that we have inherited the idea of an other-worldly paradise, and this vale of tears rarely lives up to the expectations fostered by that.

Answer 3

Boredom is a state of mind in which one interprets one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking stimuli. There is an inherent hopelessness in boredom; people will expend considerable effort to prevent or remedy it, yet in many circumstances it is accepted as an inevitable suffering to be endured. A common way to escape boredom is through creative thoughts or daydreaming.

Charles Dickens invented the word in his novel Bleak House in 1852.

Time often seems to move more slowly to someone who experiences boredom; this results from the way in which the human mind measures the passage of time, combined with the infrequency of events perceived as notable.

So as you can see 'boredom' was never invented - only the 'word boredom' was. Boredom being a human interpretation is subject to one's psychology, past experiences, knowledge and environment.

Answer 4

I hate it when people make you feel guilty about being bored! I have so much great stuff to do with my time - but at the moment I am stuck at work doing admin - that IS boring.

And yes of course I appreciate my life and all the things in it which is why I get bored and frustrated when I can't do them because I am: stuck in a meeting/ travelling on the tube/ trapped at a dull party/ watching a bad film etc. etc.

And don't start telling me that my meetings aren't boring ... just you try listening to 8 grown men talking about air conditioning for 3 hours!!

Answer 5

I think boredom is just a little device that makes you stop and pause for thought rather than filling every waking moment with something constructive. it's "time-out". A lot of interesting ideas develop when you are bored too. Try it some time!

Answer 6

Actually we are away from our original self, as we are just an image of it. This feeling of some thing missing is always asking for satisfaction.
As more we know about our self as we reduce the feeling of boredom.

Answer 7

Humans are designed to wait and not be bored. The more things there are to do, the less we are able to sit in quiet thought. We become bored because the world has so much to offer.

Answer 8

I don't know what boredom is. Doing nothing is my favorite thing.
And I agree about what you wrote-the world and life is so full of options that I feel overwhelmed (way too much to choose from), not bored.

Answer 9

Yes, boredom is a condition of the mind.

Answer 10

Easy, once you do something enough times, even though it's new when you first try or do it, it keeps you interested and involved.

After time you tend to need more to stimulate yourself, to reach that same level of involvment.

In the end you end up bored because you tend to head back to the same thing that "used" to interest you in the past

It can be cured by doing many activities in moderation instead of one or two activities all the time.

Answer 11

Boredom is born from boring people, they are the root of this evil!!! lol