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I have just realised this evening that I haven’t been bored for the longest time. I mean “seriously flicking through the TV channels bored in the vain hope of finding something vaguely interesting”. I cannot remember the last time that I actually had the realisation of being bored. It used to happen all of the time but now having so many distractions in life boredom just doesn’t figure on my horizon.
A combination of three kids, various ongoing projects, a business going well, a wife needing some attention of course, blogs, social media, book writing and the needs of running a house and working from home mean that there is very little time for sitting around.
Is this a bad thing? Maybe.
I think that boredom may actually play an important part in our lives as the brain has time to just sit there unoccupied and thoughts and things happen.
So can someone tell me would I be better actually sitting around on my backside mindlessly consuming some iffy brain mush reality TV involving celebrities or really does this show that I have a life? Now if you read this and you are one of those people who does spend much of the day watching daytime TV please tell me what I am missing. Also if you are a teenager please tell me how it is possible to be in a state of permanent boredom. When there is so much possible to do in this life and so many possibilities and so many distractions how can you be permanently moping around in a dark bedroom complaining that the whole world is against you and listening to Nirvana?
Just a thought.
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IMHO, this state tells you have a life. And not just a life. Your have your Elements of Interest, which include purpose, for one, social closeness for another, I hope. And yes, I think being free to let your mind wander serves a purpose, not to watch reality TV (although that would be good for a reward sometimes–if you like the TV show) but just to go beyond the practical and real to playing with the unreal and the possible. I personally do this when I’m half awake, lying in the dim morning light. I wake up with the greatest ideas and some of them I remember and use. “Free to let your mind…” I said. Freedom plays a huge role in avoiding boredom, and working at home (while it has its pitfalls) allows you to bring many of your Elements of Interest into your work and play. See my ThePowerOfBoredom.com. Glad your business is going well.
were you bored because you sat down at the TV?
each time i flick the TV channels I´m genuinely suprised when I do find a delightful TV programme to watch – it´s so rare and yet the same applied to the web is the total opposite. It´s rare I don´t find find something to distract, challenge or interest me online.
That said I can´t see these internet on TV experiences really taking off. Lean back is not the same as lean forward.
No I wasn’t bored Paul. I spend time on the net but I don’t spend time in front of the TV in general. Therefore the TV cannot bore me in the words of The Boss “57 channels and nothing on” cannot happen as I only put it on if there is something I want to see specifically. As I don’t watch it I never know if there is something I want to see specifically!
The internet as you say always has something interesting even in my downtime, which isn’t often
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