“I am bored” may sound very simple to hear and casual to say but over the years it can manifest to something impacting life itself causing loneliness and no interest in life. Sometimes you may not even realise that you are so bored that it is making you depressed.
Few interesting articles to understand this:
“If you’re alive, there is no room for boredom in life. If you’ve just become a thought then yes”
“Too many thoughts dry up even emotions, you are not touched by life and there is no joy, excitement to live and you are bored, to the point of wanting to may be even terminate life”
“In a nutshell, it boiled down to boredom being the unfulfilled desire for satisfying activity.
At times, boredom breeds lethargy. In other situations, being bored can lead to an agitated restlessness: think pacing, or constantly tapping your feet. Often, he says, boredom oscillates between the two states.
People highly prone to boredom perform poorly on tasks that require sustained attention, and are more likely to show increased symptoms of depression.
When people are bored, they’re disengaged from satisfying activity and more likely to become internally focused in a negative, ruminative cycle.
People with a high sensitivity to reward are also at risk of boredom. These sensation seekers — such as the skydivers among us — are particularly likely to find the world moves too slowly. At the opposite end of the spectrum, people who are overly sensitive to pain and punishment — such as people with high anxiety — are more likely to withdraw from the world out of self-protection. They may end up understimulated as a result.
Feelings are like compass points that help orient us. If we lack emotional awareness, we lack the capacity to select appropriate targets for engagement with the world.
If people don’t have the inner resources to deal with boredom constructively, they might do something destructive to fill the void,” Belton says. “Those who have the patience to stay with that feeling, and the imagination and confidence to try out new ideas, are likely to make something creative out of it.”
We saw that boredom actually increased people’s tendency to recall these very nostalgic memories and actually made them feel that life in general was more meaningful.”
Boredom signals what you’re doing right now seems to be lacking purpose,” he explains. “As soon as you offer people alternative behaviors that may give them a sense of purpose, they’re more eager to engage, and this can result in negative or positive behavior.
Cope with boredom in math class. Some took a cognitive approach, such as reminding themselves how learning math would help them reach their career goals. the students who took the cognitive approach experienced less boredom than the avoiders”
Life’s greatest lessons are usually learned from worst times and from worst mistakes.
Source: https://completewellbeing.com/article/dont-die-of-boredom/
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