How the Way You Respond to Boredom Changes Your Life 

I'll be spitting on the stone😮😮

​@@JuanMejia-md8re Thanx, that makes it easier to shine. 😏

Thoughtfully chosen career??

This career thing. Hmmm. We live to long to stick on selves in a box. For some it works. For some it's restricting. But I appreciate the ones that find their passion early. And I appreciate the ones that can be diverse. We need both imo.

would include the last line as well: "Perhaps some of the most successful among us are those who very few will ever know."

Heard that quote from "Aperture" RU-vidr...

I think it's not a good Idea he soon would end up find other unproductive things, boredom makes people find something entertainment and waste of time.

I've heard that thousands of times and still hate the quote ngl. It's also because i have adhd so its worse for me when im bored. When people are bored, like me, they feel like they have nothing to do and anything other than what they want to do is not fun or entertaining and is not productive. being bored to "increase creativity" is the most lame excuse I've ever heard.

​@@justmatt1164productive doesn't mean make money and status... So something entertainment for you is others profession or art...

​@@swiftmoves by boredom you do know that they meant slow-pace not the boredom itself. I think it's necessary somtimes take things slow in comparison to the intoxicating fast-paced life.

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I agree with everything you've said...☺️

Boring to others? They aren’t living my life and I’m not living theirs. Happiness comes from within. I agree with you.

@@highflyer72 😊👌

@@mytruthbekind5793 😊👌

I believe success can be achieved simply by the efforts you take to preserve your own health, life will never be worth living when your body isnt healthy

you can have excitement without stress

Thanks for this!! I'm 33 male and having existential crisis coz I'm bored w my hobbies and thinking if I'll want a kid but it will ruin me financially, plus I watch news and I know how selfish to have kids now, I'm in ph near Taiwan china ww3 threat

So right! I am a retired real estate executive and I am sometimes bored and it is fine with me. I prefer to be bored than to work in the highly competitive business environment. Time to go and prepare lunch and then off the 20 miles of bicycling! My life is not so boring after all!

I’m a nurse🙋🏻‍♂️ I second that

You caught 11 fish? That's not boring, catching no fish is boring. LOL

@@Lousy-Looter *11 fish I had to throw back because they weren't big enough, haha.

At times, I wish my life was a bit more boring than it was. I have hardly even been bored. Too busy attending to something that needs my attention. No chance for being bored. Where do you find time for boring days? :)

Yeah but I bet it was still fun reeling them in, its really important to take the time once in a while to just relax and spend time with your family it can seem boring but it is definitely quality time spent together.

@@Lousy-Looter I appreciate you bro. The whole experience was fun, especially with family. There was just long bouts of staring off into space, which isn't bad, it was just bored, lol

I love the way you approach life. I'm happy I just read what you have written. Stay like that, don't lose your awe :)

I think it would be mindset and situation. Like where I live its kinda shitty you can barely see the stars due to light pollution and the moon isn't even always visible so you look at nothing but a purplish void...The area itself is mostly buildings with little nature and of what there is you are gonna be disturbed by people with dogs. I don't even have a private garden. When I lived at home I used to sit on the roof with my cat and we'd watch the stars sunrise and sunset, those were genuinely good... As for work I can't help but endlessly think how pointless it is, the people barely consider your time valuable and thus waste hours of it doing nothing, theres very few jobs where you can work at your own pace. I wish societies definition of worth could be ignored but it affects a degree of your knowledge, comfort, food, experiences, friends, living conditions, job opportunities and if you had a bad job all the latter get worse. I just can't enjoy this world or moment without thinking of the next. Your lucky to be able to push past it all. I hope you always keep your freedom of your mind and go down this type of path.

This sounds like how I am on mushrooms, fuck bud

That's my life, fortunately I live in a rural set-up in Uganda,I just sit and stare at plants and wonder how everything came about, especially the atmosphere the air we breathe in,

Wow inspirational

Indeed

As soon as you realize you will never have anything figured out the better off you’ll be! Just stay open, keep learning and challenging yourself

@@moorechez67 well it can also be dangerous with too much skepticism. You lose integrity and identity since you always question everything about yourself and others.

There is no need to question anything if you understand that every answer you will arrive at is probably wrong in some way.

@@remuspoenariu8750 that seems a lot more cynical than I want to go through life thinking

@@carltonbanks263 question everything in a curious way, not a negative way. always ask "why" and "how?", especially when you feel you already know the answer. The more aware you become of things, the more you will understand. Reaching a point of understanding implies an end to your learning, but the endgoal is not understanding, it is to always continue expanding awareness. The journey is the destination. Enjoy the process of expanding your awareness, of endlessly learning new things, that is all you need.

Well said mate , Pessoa and Woods , ánd it's stays in the memory to contemplate....

What does new interesting things include? I am thinking of it too but don't know where to start.

It's weird but honestly I don't think you should "find" something interesting, just be bored and your brain would want to focus on something, then you take action. I would stare at the wall for 1 hour and the whole time I'm not bored, my brain kept focusing on anything; the next thing I knew 1 hour past and I'm wondering if I should add another hour.

You should look up jerry marzinsky

Two days? Consider yourself lucky. When you've been bored for five years or more, hit me up, we'll grab a drink. 🍻

@@optimist_ic doing what makes you inspired is a good guess

✝️ *God loves you. He offers you forgiveness of your sins.* ✝️ Repent and believe in the gospel *And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.* Hebrews 9:27‭-‬28 NKJV ✝️ The gospel of Jesus Christ *For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,* I Corinthians 15:3‭-‬4 nkjv ✝️

That's fantastic, even I AM. 👍🙏

stop it with that new age demonic stuff. jesus is the truth

Mine is "I trust, I trust the universe and I am safe, everything is working out for my highest good" maybe this could help ppl with anxiety like myself,which I'm doing work on now, but at times has been overwhelming and scary. 🕊️Peace and love ❤ to all seekers out there.

@@Heretolearn333 Peace and love to you as well ❤

It is both. that is what is so frighening

One friend told me ones “The days feel long but the years pass by crazy fast”

PREACH!

I think people are confusing boredom with peacefulness.

amongus

I agree. What a simple but brilliant and beautiful quote. I'm in awe

Cope

Hari raya bro/sis!😊

do you have any advice on starting?

Meditation is essentially embracing boredom, nice

True, and same here

Look up Dr Andrew Huberman on RU-vid and be amazed. He did an episode on meditation.

tell me youre not on meds, although i know you probably are by now.

Joe Dispenza books and meditations help me with my depression. You should try

@@YOUARESOFT.whats wrong with meds? im not on them anymore but for the year span i was has been critical. zero regrets.

@@fawazahmed4978 how did you get off them

Wow man I’m terribly sorry that you actually recognize that and can’t do anything about it. Wow

I wouldn’t really call it an illness it’s just the result of capitalistic conditioning. They purposely implant ideas in your mind so that you would behave and act in ways that benefit corporations. They want you to constantly be doing things because it requires you to spend money. Notice how nobody is telling you to go camping or hiking and enjoy nature, it’s all just things that involve spending money in the city. They want you to feel like you are missing out and that unless you do what they say you’re "wasting time". The truth is everything could be seen as a waste of time, it’s just a matter of perspective. I personally find the idea insulting because even just being alive is an exciting and beautiful thing, how you choose to spend the time you are given here is up to you and there is no right or wrong way to do it.

I miss not having a phone, truly

I agree

Me too, hope you're on the road to recovery. Keep your head up towards the stars

​@@theonejmv And learning how to make games independently

Indeed😮

I am a person who needs to constantly do things... And I grew up an only child in the 90s too. (I am neurodivergent)

@@sandradermark8463 90s neurodivergent only child here. Although I was always doing somthing I’ve realized after a long struggle I’m starting to enjoy my boredom

So, you did not have TV, a VCR or videogames? You did not have books or balls ?? You may beguile some of the zoomers with your stories, but as a fellow 90s kid and a single child to boot, I call bullshit on that. I have always hated boredom, and I cannot think of a single moment when we didn't do something! If the weather was bad, we watched movies or played videogames or played with LEGOs . What's with some these comments that portray the 90s as the Stone Age populated by people who "embraced boredom" .?? We did have entertainment even before smartphones!

I should have given up weed for Lent, I’d probably get so much done!!

@@Emiliapocalypse That's EXACTLY what I gave up lol

Imagine following a religion where your god commands his chosen people to commit genocide and utterly obliterate another tribe, such as the Canaanites, (but keep the young virgins women), imagine if the same god will slaughter babies (Revelations 2:22). And the examples are endless in the book you follow. Imagine following a god / leader / king that commands such atrocities. I wonder how depraved of a human one needs to be to follow such a deity ? Enjoy Lent.

What's Lent?

​@@riisana8177 Lent is a Christian holiday in which people give up something they really enjoy to remember Jesus's sacrifice (he starved in the desert for 40 days). Here's an excerpt from britannica: "Catholics and other Christians often choose to give up specific pleasures, such as sweets, alcohol, or social media during Lent...many use their cravings or desires for these items as a reminder to pray and to refocus on spiritual matters." :)

how has life become overwhelming, please share

‼️ I'm starting to wonder if this Pursuit of Wonder character coold be uh Democrap? ‼️ ‼️ You'll have less , own nothing & be happy ‼️ ‼️ Strive for less, bee bored and own less, sounds bleak ‼️ NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸

@@BIGPIE3333the life you live is full of free and unnatural stimulation. if u looked at how people in the past lived they could be content just listening to the nature around them. we aren't free right now and it's disguised well with happiness in materialism

@@dane6211 ‼️👍🇺🇸‼️ ❗️ 👁 read books 📚 by people like David Grayson (The countryman's year, Under my Elm are 2 great books - all of his book R great. 👁 only read books from 1900 to 1949 - greatest era of writers). Another person 👁 admire is David Attenborough, these two people relate to your comment on just enjoying the sounds of nature, no digital devices 📱 ❗️ ❗️ Thee people in the comments above - didn't have a choice in what to aspire to enjoy, experiencing life in its raw form was what was available, these people in those era's experienced true interaction with our earth 🌎 and its dwellers 👍‼️ ‼️ 👁 remember the days before cell phones 📵 (I'm 50), 👁 long for those days without all these digital distractions, I'm looking at my phone 75% less now though - it's a start in the right direction 👍❗️ NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸

You're the man

I enjoyed reading your comment very much. Thank you for taking the time to write and share it ❤

thats where you are slightly wrong. when the people around us turn rogue, there goes our peace.. been there.

Death is part of life, If you believe in God ask him to remove that fear

sit with it. tolerate the uncomfortable feelings instead of using your phone to numb yourself.

best advice for me is to train yourself to desire what you already have. You have two wolves living inside you, one bad, thinking about death, and one good, thinking about wonders, you become the wolf you feed the most. Do things that feed the good wolf, it will go better because this wolf will outgrow the bad wolf, who will then fear to come out.

Put the electronic devices down and go find life , you won't have time to think about death . Peace ☺

Hah my grandparents kinda said the same thing " if you can find anything to make you interested, don't be surprised when someone doesn't find you interesting " ...boy you've never seen a 10 year old find a good book to read so fast lol ..

Preach.

watts is the man, or was atleast

you can't do the things you wanna do because you are addicted to quick dopamine shots. Being bored is sometimes good. It increses creativity and makes time for you to reflect your inner self.

‼️🤔 Being Bored is Boring 🤔‼️ NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸

​@@seaque. It does not, because you have to be creative in the first place. It is also naive to velieve that people who are alone with their thoughts won't just start making shopping lists in their heads, or in my case, obsess over some future travel or other epic event.

Why not make a video game independently