When was the last time you were bored?
I'm bored mostly every day all day. Doing nothing productive except a gym once a day, being awake till 4-5 am last few days. I'll have to wake up soon. My tests are hurting coz of that...
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Yesterday. My work is very slow in the summer, and i have limited access to outside things. Can't bring in books either, so i am often just sitting at my desk.
I can get on the internet and bypass some restrictions (like to get on SG while there), or hide my phone under my desk when no one is around, but it's not always feasible.
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I think that a person who is bored when there is "nothing to do", bored when there is no one else around, bored with the thoughts and ideas in their own head, isn't so much bored (i.e. the victim) as they are boring (i.e. the perpetrator). I'm bipolar, ADHD, and talk to myself all the time though. So maybe I just change subjects so often in my head that I never get tired of one. What do I know? I've become bored with this topic. I wonder what it would look like sitting inside of a mirrored ball......
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I don't think this really fits the victim/perpetrator duality, because people have the "right" to be both bored and boring and most practice both at one point in time ;-)
Now, about sitting inside of a mirrored ball, I wouldn't mind trying it. It definitely sounds (pun not intended) better than sitting in the quietest room in the world. This one I wouldn't try.
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Waited for a grill to reach its perfect temperature earlier today, and then waited for the food to cook on it. Not the most entertaining thing in the world (but the result was worth it!)
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While waiting for the grill to reach the perfect temperature, the people I was grilling with were going down to the store. All I had with me to pass time with was my cellphone, and while it made things less boring, it was still a bit boring.
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Waiting for the time to pass til Thursday when I'll be able to finally travel back up to the northern parts of Sweden to test my lovely new untested sauna is a bit boring, all I do is watch the clock, counting til the day I'll be able to get away from the city and sit down with a beer and relax in that new sauna :)
So basically, I'm bored right now ^^
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I haven't really enjoyed saunas the few times I tried, but your post picked my interest so I did some reading. That isvak thing and all the public nudity don't make it sound very pleasant, but maybe I'll gather enough courage one day to try it. It didn't even cross my mind the couple of times I visited Sweden.
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Oh if you go to a public sauna in Sweden (like for example there's a public sauna in pretty much all public bath houses here, and in those everyone wear swimwear. So you can try it out without having to be nude :)
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I always have something to do. Impossible to be bored these days.
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Here's the thing... boredom comes to those who don't have something to consciously engage in. That's not necessarily -active- engagement. For example, if you're digging a hole, your mind isn't engaged and you can become bored. If you're sitting actively engaging your mind, you can remedy your boredom.
So when I'm not gaming, playing an instrument (guitar, piano, etc), working, teaching, or reading, I'm coding or working on figuring out solutions to coding issues to improve software. I don't even need a computer for that; algorithm navigation can be done mentally and works well to stave off boredom.
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The last time I was bored was my last day of High School 7 years ago.
Never ever since ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Roughly twice a year, when my cousin comes to visit me for Christmas and my birthday (so February, I suppose). She's a nice woman, but she always ends up staying 2-3 hours and droning on and on about her neverending health problems (I'm convinced she prepares the whole monologue beforehand), and despite my best efforts I keep zoning out.
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Maybe suggest to do something interesting together before she gets started?
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I try, but the conversation somehow always manages to revert back to her health. If I ever mention heading out, she starts telling me about her skin problems whenever it gets cold and every single treatement she has ever tried and heard other people did; if we're going to a restaurant or to grab coffee, she gets started on her indeterminate amount of allergies and intollerances, her blood tests, her diabetes, and all the diets she has ever followed and the effect they had on her body; if we're going shopping, it's her hips and her knees, and physioteraphy; the one time I suggested watching a movie, she managed to link that to her neck and back problems; if I mention liking her hairstyle to change the topic, she starts talking about shampoos and make-up and skin products and how she can only use those few specific ones, because a long list follows gave her all kinds of rashes, and cuts, and other sorts of things far too disgusting to talk about, especially while you're having LUNCH. Everything is a trigger, there is no getting away from it. Honestly, I feel bad for her, I really do, her body is a mess, I get it. But she's an absolute nightmare.
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Wow. I admire your patience. I doubt I was able to go through something like this without saying something I'd regret. There are other ways to handle chronic complainers, but I just don't have the patience or conversation skills to do it.
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Lol, thanks, but I would hardly call myself zoning out being patient, haha!
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Since having a child I actually quite miss occasional moments of boredom...
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I feel some sort of boredom nearly every day, to be honest. Today, it was when I was playing Overwatch with a few friends, and one of them had to drop out to restart their game to fix an issue. It was only a couple of minutes; long enough to feel bored, but not long enough to justify playing a quick game while waiting.
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Right now. I'm at work, it's not very busy and I'm lazy and don't want to work. :(
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On weekends, I man the gift shop at the museum I do curatorial work for during the week.
It's generally extremely boring. But it's more money, albeit at a lower rate.
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I miss
"Right now that's why I clicked on this thread"
as option
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I think the better phrasing for the title would be 'When's the last time you weren't bored'. :p
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I was convinced that the advent of the internet and smartphones made boredom extinct, but apparently it's still a thing. Feel free to share boring stories about boredom in this thread!
Just to clarify - I'm referring to the type of boredom which is extended enough for you to become aware of it, not the type that doesn't even register until you do something that interests you a few seconds later.
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