Why is everything so boring?

Dan1 · October 17, 2020, 2:48am

Loss of interest in everything all at once, is part of a clinical depression.
There’s a pill for that.

Pedro_I_Rengel · October 17, 2020, 2:49am

Have you tried it?

Dan1 · October 17, 2020, 5:39am

Have i tried pills?

Pedro_I_Rengel · October 17, 2020, 2:08pm

Do you always answer simple questions with questions?

Maia · October 18, 2020, 3:24pm

Pedro I Rengel:

Well, speaking true, it depends on your job (income / hours / vacation time). On things like that depend the answer to questions like:

Have you considered hunting?

Right I guess you’re in England. But again, depending on availability, you may book a hunting trip somewhere. Maybe Russia.

Rich people don’t get bored. And the reason people look at the very very rich, the billionaires, and think “all that money and they don’t even go elephant hunting,” is that once you make enough wealth, you realize that the accumulation of wealth itself is the least boring thing to do.

Other times, a lack of enthusiasm is a consequence of an active circumstance, rather than a lack of one. What was the last thing you had enthusiasm about?

Then also, I would say some people discover plenty enthusiasm in, whatever, and then what they experience is not so much a lack of it but its replacement with extreme worry, such is the enthusiasm. Let me explain. Think of a mother. At first all bubbles and sunshine. But soon a basket of worry. Enthusiasm comes from something being meaningful to you. Worry can then replace it as a kind of upgrade, rather than lack of. Or like a gold miner who is never “happy” obsessing over the mine and keeping it safe or whatnot. If that miner could choose a place to be or thing to do, he would choose the mine and worrying about it.

I used to think the same thing as promethean75, and as a general rule it kind of works, but Republicans have helped me understand that it is only an excuse. There is no reason, being a native of the first world, you cannot concern yourself with the world to the point of enthusiasm and its derivatives. To find meaning. I don’t think anybody gets bored south of the Dixie line.

Also, maybe, think of Hercules. He never got bored, because he set goals. This is perhaps another characteristic of the First World, that you can have a set-up. You are employed, you are guaranteed pretty much everything, and you can pretty much do that until you die. Nothing depends on you, and there is no risk as long as you do your job. The first world allows to not need to set goals. But, if you set one, even arbitrarily, that is beyond your present means: you will never be bored again.

Hunting with guns sounds like really good fun. I think I’ll make some enquiries.

Urwrongx1000 · October 18, 2020, 9:34pm

Don’t even think about it.

Karpel_Tunnel · October 19, 2020, 1:35am

Maybe you are closer to your actual desires. I don’t know how Corona has affected you, but it might have led to more isolation which might have led to being in more contact with yourself, which might have led to you noticing that you really want things that you really value, whatever that is. Boredom is hard. It seems like a luxury problem, compared say to starvation, but I think it is actually much more severe than it seems. It eats at the soul. I find that I am often facing a choice between slightly interesting things, that are really distractions, and an experience of the void…that is nothing. That there isn’t the deep whatever experience or option I really want on the table, as far as I can see. For me this has intensified lately. I am not in lockdown, so my situation is not very influenced by Corona, though it is ‘in the air’ as part of the compression everyone is feeling, adding stress and unknown fears

Berkley_Babes · October 20, 2020, 11:22am

Entertain her!

MagsJ · October 21, 2020, 3:44pm

That’s given me a thought… perhaps it’s more difficult to be entertained, or be fully entertained, if you’re blind.

The deaf suffer with that malaise too, with that of an unquenchable level of boredom.

Perhaps socio/community undertakings, is the only way forward, and can lead to other things… as that is the nature of socialising.

Maia · October 21, 2020, 4:06pm

Yes, I’m sure you’re right.

Meno2 · October 21, 2020, 4:12pm

With one sense absent, I have heard, other senses compensate. The blind is said to have a far greater appreciation in quality if heading, with both missing, -sight and sound, the scent and touch of life are enhanced.

They say this, but the missing sense gives only relative of levels of appreciation. A person , who never did have sight, misses this. Only the person who has had sight at some point, can attest to this.

Could You, Maia comment on it? Thanks. Have You always lacked sight?

Does music affect You so that , it has always been an important part of Your life?

Maia · October 21, 2020, 4:37pm

Yes, I was born completely blind.

Music has certainly always been an important part of my life, but I think that’s true of a very large number of people. I agree, though, that other senses compensate. I’m pretty good at echolocation, for example. I can judge the position of objects ahead of me, the size of rooms I’m in, and so on, by clicking my tongue a few times. I also rely on my sense of smell a lot.

Meno2 · October 21, 2020, 7:25pm

Maia:

Meno_:

With one sense absent, I have heard, other senses compensate. The blind is said to have a far greater appreciation in quality if heading, with both missing, -sight and sound, the scent and touch of life are enhanced.

They say this, but the missing sense gives only relative of levels of appreciation. A person , who never did have sight, misses this. Only the person who has had sight at some point, can attest to this.

Could You, Maia comment on it? Thanks. Have You always lacked sight?

Does music affect You so that , it has always been an important part of Your life?

Yes, I was born completely blind.

Music has certainly always been an important part of my life, but I think that’s true of a very large number of people. I agree, though, that other senses compensate. I’m pretty good at echolocation, for example. I can judge the position of objects ahead of me, the size of rooms I’m in, and so on, by clicking my tongue a few times. I also rely on my sense of smell a lot.

Thanks for the inform, leading the way to the idea that pre-natal , states do not equal a blank slate, the mothers’feelings transferred and conjoined with the embrio do not disqualify from a clean slate, phenomenally absent projection.

At what stage do these primary impressions start? My personally belief is , that it happens at the moment of fertilization.

The religious coin it as " Sanctity of Life"

In that round, geneticists win the battle over behaviorists.

Urwrongx1000 · October 21, 2020, 9:30pm

It takes two to tango.

Maia needs to step out of her comfort zone, which she refuses to do, and then complains about it?

MagsJ · October 22, 2020, 4:30am

Urwrong, do you want to tango with Maia? lol

Procreation is not a permanent solution to her dilemma though, as that would be more like putting a plaster over an open wound… so a short term solution, to a long term problem.

Perhaps then, she needs a long-term relationship, not a short-term tryst?

Pedro_I_Rengel · October 22, 2020, 4:58pm

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I’m not saying you HAVE to hunt lol. But just, don’t ever let anyone tell you what you can or can’t do.

Pedro_I_Rengel · October 22, 2020, 4:59pm

And then politely walk away.

Urwrongx1000 · October 23, 2020, 3:55am

We have to pass the time one way rather than another

MagsJ · October 23, 2020, 12:35pm

…this new phase of the lockdown is tempting people to do just that, in the boredom of loneliness starting to make people consider such things…

The birth-rate might even rise in the West… it probably has already… Paloma Faith can vouch for that.

Destiny · December 4, 2020, 8:58pm

I had the same until I found a man who is more educated than myself. Now I am never bored. Educated men are fun.