How do people get bored on their own in this day and age?

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Cocaine was available on a doctor's subscription too if I remember rightly.

Yeah ... funnily enough the Commonwealth being urged by the medical profession not to ban it in the 50s and 60s.

Most of the judgment call came from the U.S. shaking its fist. In termsof drug use, I think Australia has the highest rate of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines usage by capita? Seriously, the world hasn't ended ...though honestly we're better off without meth. But I think doctor's prescriptions and evaluations and naturalistic regulations concerning health of recipients rather than total prohibition, concerning cocaine and heroin, would undercut sales and use of meth.

If you can get cheap and clean blow, why take expensive and dodgy meth? Personally I won't touch glass with a 10' pole, but admittedly that's personal inclination rather than speaks to the lawfulness of opiates.

 

[BarkBarker]

I can't find the hook that takes me to a line I feel needs attention at the moment sometimes, I've got a need for SOMETHING I just don't know what. I get bored not because I don't have options, I get bored because I'm unsure what this feeling I'm feeling needs. Sometimes a good insightful video, sometimes dumb jokes and sometimes I need to calm this fever with more Cowbell.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I am usually so busy and doing so many things at once that I cannot possibly even imagine actually getting bored. I am never not doing multiple things at once while I am awake. When I am not working or volunteering, and am lucky enough to have down time, I am either playing games, painting, drawing, sculpting, sheet metal art, mirror and glass art, LEd art, bead work, leatherwork, featherwork, woodworking, wood burning, wood carving, furniture design, building computers and other electronics, graphic design, gardening, jet skiing, hiking, pilates, tennis, volleyball, or playing with my cats.

I am usually always designing, making, building or creating something, usually multiple things at once because I hate waiting for stuff to dry, set or cool (paint, sealant, reflowed mainboard). I have never understood " waiting" or "patience" and utilize like 100% of my time. I never understood why people are always wasting so much time. People may think I am wasting time on here while in reality I am doing all of these other things WHILE I am on here because I need to do more things at once for me to feel "at ease". I am an extremely hyper person, have a difficult time sitting still too long, and pace while doing other things. I can actually paint something while walking around with it while talking to someone and mentally designing the next project in my head. According to the guy sitting next to me, he gets wore out just from watching me. I rarely ever work on one thing at a time. I would go stir crazy.

I can see how other people may get bored though. They are not doing enough at once!

Oh yea and how could I forget my LEGO!! OMG I have more lego than most anyone and I almost left that out! No one can be bored and have lego.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I remember the Heroin Trial in Canberra about a decade or so back, apparantly it went really well but was struck down at the federal level for full legal implementation. I don't remember what the reasoning was though.

Argh... I'm guessing it was something along the line of; "Can't people be happy with natural substances in a controlled environment and quantities that help improve the lives of people with depression and undercut organized crime?"

And big pharma and investors thereof said no. Apparently only legal opioids sold at ridiculous mark up and cause worse problems for people concerning addiction are allowed to dealwith chronic pain and psychological distress. You know, heroin used to be sold in ounce bottles in Australia for almost nothing in 1953, and probably did wonders for the traumatized diggers (physically or mentally) returning from the War?

Safe, therapeutic, cheap.

A lot of them probably survived because of it, in an age where psychological services were lacking. Maybe the chronic "legal" opioid addiction rate in the U.S. ripping off an entire generation of people might help send ripples to terra australia?

Cocaine was available on a doctor's subscription too if I remember rightly.

I have been told that people do cocaine to be like I am naturally. I am pretty much a human super ball bouncing all over the place all the time and do not need to use drugs or enhancers to do so. XD

 

[Saelune]

I am usually so busy and doing so many things at once that I cannot possibly even imagine actually getting bored. I am never not doing multiple things at once while I am awake. When I am not working or volunteering, and am lucky enough to have down time, I am either playing games, painting, drawing, sculpting, sheet metal art, mirror and glass art, LEd art, bead work, leatherwork, featherwork, woodworking, wood burning, wood carving, furniture design, building computers and other electronics, graphic design, gardening, jet skiing, hiking, pilates, tennis, volleyball, or playing with my cats.

I am usually always designing, making, building or creating something, usually multiple things at once because I hate waiting for stuff to dry, set or cool (paint, sealant, reflowed mainboard). I have never understood " waiting" or "patience" and utilize like 100% of my time. I never understood why people are always wasting so much time. People may think I am wasting time on here while in reality I am doing all of these other things WHILE I am on here because I need to do more things at once for me to feel "at ease". I am an extremely hyper person, have a difficult time sitting still too long, and pace while doing other things. I can actually paint something while walking around with it while talking to someone and mentally designing the next project in my head. According to the guy sitting next to me, he gets wore out just from watching me. I rarely ever work on one thing at a time. I would go stir crazy.

I can see how other people may get bored though. They are not doing enough at once!

Oh yea and how could I forget my LEGO!! OMG I have more lego than most anyone and I almost left that out! No one can be bored and have lego.

Yeah but you cheat by being a human perpetual energy machine. I get exhausted just reading your posts sometimes.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I remember severe depression making me bored easily. Wanting atleast one of my friends around. But it has more to do that my own hobbies couldn't give me a proper distraction anymore, and if I tried it took 20 minutes or so before i lost all concentration on it. Something my friends could do, and make me forget that I felt like shit for almost 24/7.

Now that I'm doing better, I like being by myself. Well for the most part, there's a huge asterix next to that sentence I'm not going to delve in on here.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Hm, I think it's quite easy to become bored. What usually happens for me is I don't feel like doing the same old things I usually do, but the things I think would not bore me require too much effort to bother with. Those situations don't happen TOO often, but they do happen, especially lately since I'm living alone with no job or school to distract me.

Of course people who experience extended periods of boredom might just have depression. I'm pretty sure I'm not depressed. I've seen people with depression describe it and I can't say I've experienced a state of mind like that.

Honestly, I'm much more likely to be bored in the company of other people. I'm a big time introvert, and small talk just kills me. I do not enjoy merely the presence of other people. I like DOING things with other people that we can then talk about, but just being around people for its own sake is the most boring situation I can imagine. I'm no narcissist, but I enjoy my own company enough to get by on my own.

 

[Mechamorph]

Aside from the other factors mentioned earlier such as depression, I believe that a large part of it stems from the need for self-actualization. Are you the kind of person who finds satisfaction in making a work of art or displaying your work of art? Each person has a self-identity and that which reinforces it is usually healthy up to a point.

To use a metaphor from gaming, some people are content to play the single-player campaign. They find the story interesting and the game play fulfilling. Others derive their satisfaction from rekting n00bs in ranked matches.

Personally I believe it has never been a better time to be an introvert. I am old enough to remember when a serialized drama on the radio or a pleasant after-dinner conversation with my friends was the highlight of a week's entertainment. Part of modern boredom I think is derived from how unfulfilling many people find modern entertainment. So much made so cheaply until nothing really suits personal rather than mass market tastes.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I have been told that people do cocaine to be like I am naturally. I am pretty much a human super ball bouncing all over the place all the time and do not need to use drugs or enhancers to do so. XD

Blow. It makes everything more enjoyable. Changing oil in the underground carpark in winter? Coming out to friends? Seeking a business loan at the bank? Blow gives you wings. If you use it responsibly you can get shit done that you otherwise might just put off.

That's how I got ahead on 4 courses worth of study and assignments over two days.

It's one of those drugs both industrialists and doctors should want with easier, cheaper (regulated) access. Makes you a buzzy social butterfly in the workplace. Improves performance in hectic environments, improves mood as well to boot. Why have workers going to work miserable, looking miserable to eachother, looking miserable to customers... legslise snd sell coke and the world is rainbows. Do two or three rails and set out yo work on the motorbike. Suddenly you've retuned and drained carbies, finally swapped out those pads, regreased the rear wheel axle bar, changed the air filter, drained the fuel tank, and swapped out the spark plugs. You don't just look at a draining oil sump and think to yourself; "Fuck it, smoko."

The key is to give yourself things to do... use it responsibly. Probably better for you if they sold it responsibly in chemists than that 8th mug of coffee and 12th cigarette you've had in the 7-6 daily grind.

I fail to see how anyone can be that naturally happy and energetic without being manic. Not judging. We need more eccentrics to balance out the crippling mundanity of others.

 

[DrownedAmmet]

Choice exhaustion. When people have too many choices, they find it hard to choose.

This. So much this.

Back in the day if you only had books to read, you would just read a book. Now there's videos game, movies, TV, Netflix, books are still around, there's a million hobbies you can do or places to go that sometimes it's hard to make a choice and easier to do nothing

I ran into this problem because there is an awesome city park about a half hour drive from my house, and a perfectly adequate one two blocks away. Sometimes I'll feel like going to a park but I don't want to go to the average one because I know there's a better one out there, but I don't go to that one because it's too far, so I just don't go to either

It's one of the reasons why I've felt better about playing video games too much, because if I try to not play a game I'll probably browse IMDB trivia pages for four hours when it would be more productive to just play fucking Dark Souls which I can usually only play for about an hour at a time.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

You are confusing fun and killing time. You can always be occupied and not be bored but your still just killing time. Not doing anything fun, new and exciting.

 

[gsilver]

Am I ever *not* bored?

I mean, I never have the energy or drive to do much at all, and even when I was in the habit of going to the gym like every day, it was still running the (both literal and metaphorical) treadmill.
All media gets repetitive, I rarely even get the chance to interact with people, and it's fatiguing when I do. Well... Everything is fatiguing.
Work is always the same. Games are always the same. Movies are already the same.

Well, throw more counselors who are as useful as talking to a wall, medicines that make things worse, and nice food or entertainment that causes a brief feeling of "ooh. Shiny" and then almost immediately back to overwhelming apathy.

 

[dscross]

You are confusing fun and killing time. You can always be occupied and not be bored but your still just killing time. Not doing anything fun, new and exciting.

I don't think I am! I don't feel like anything I do is killing time because I don't find anything of them boring - obviously. I find them all interesting And/or enjoyable. I don't really get bored on my own or I wouldn't have started the post.

 

[Jeremy Comans]

A major reason between big differences is extroversion vs introversion. Some people soak up energy by being around a certain level of external stimuli, others need more alone time to recharge. From your Myers-Brigg's, you likely fall softly on the E side of things, but more heavily on the N side. Folk like that usually find pre-occupation an easy task.
I'm an INTJ, I very rarely get bored. But I agree with some people here; there are times I don't feel like much. Usually it is because I've hit my seclusion limit and I feel like talking to someone for a while. But, it is a rare thing indeed.
But in saying you never get bored; how often do you see people? How often are you going and interacting?
I live and work alone, so I might hit my limit and get bored after maybe two or three weeks of not properly interacting with someone else (just a few phone calls in that time (I hate talking on the phone)).

 

[Jeremy Comans]

I get bored. But I think that's primarily because I occasionally use narcotics and mundane life kind of sucks in comparison. Though due to other health issues, I can't exactly be a junkie. Not that I could afford to be a junkie. I have heard they might consider legalising heroin for purchase through a doctor's evaluation and perscription in Australia, so maybe I can live the dream?

I remember the Heroin Trial in Canberra about a decade or so back, apparantly it went really well but was struck down at the federal level for full legal implementation. I don't remember what the reasoning was though.

Are you referring to the small clinic at the north end of Civic? (Not the needle exchange at the bus interchange). They had a really good harm-minimisation program going on sometime maybe around 2005-07. Can't remember, but I got put in touch with them after I did a stint at Ted Noff's up in Watson. It was a really good program, helped a lot of people in my experience. The AFP even lay off you if you said you were on their program. It failed because soft on drugs is soft on crime, and older voters don't go for that rehabilitation bullshit.

 

[dscross]

A major reason between big differences is extroversion vs introversion. Some people soak up energy by being around a certain level of external stimuli, others need more alone time to recharge. From your Myers-Brigg's, you likely fall softly on the E side of things, but more heavily on the N side. Folk like that usually find pre-occupation an easy task.
I'm an INTJ, I very rarely get bored. But I agree with some people here; there are times I don't feel like much. Usually it is because I've hit my seclusion limit and I feel like talking to someone for a while. But, it is a rare thing indeed.

Ah someone who wants to talk MBTI! I tend to get on well with INTJs - Introverted Intuition fascinates me as a cognitive function. I actually have a good explanation for it to some degree. My lead function is extraverted Intuition, which in some senses is an ambiverted function, in that if I've no one to bounce ideas, possibilities and experiences off, I'll just do it in my mind on my own. Are you on the personality cafe forum?

 

[Jeremy Comans]

A major reason between big differences is extroversion vs introversion. Some people soak up energy by being around a certain level of external stimuli, others need more alone time to recharge. From your Myers-Brigg's, you likely fall softly on the E side of things, but more heavily on the N side. Folk like that usually find pre-occupation an easy task.
I'm an INTJ, I very rarely get bored. But I agree with some people here; there are times I don't feel like much. Usually it is because I've hit my seclusion limit and I feel like talking to someone for a while. But, it is a rare thing indeed.

Ah someone who wants to talk MBTI! I tend to get on well with INTJs - Introverted Intuition fascinates me as a cognitive function. I actually have a good explaination for it to some degree. My lead function is extraverted Intuition, which in some senses is an ambiverted function, in that if I've no one to bounce ideas, possibilities and experiences off, I'll just do it in my mind on my own. Are you on the personality cafe forum?

Not on that forum, or sure if I need to full quote or just post again.
Our types do often work IRL. My best friend is me but E, but hell does he get bored quickly. We travel alot together, he likes cities and I like the country. I'll follow his lead and do whatever, (if you know the Enneagram he is my integration wing) but hit the open road and he insists that I talk constantly. Doesn't like a quiet moment.

 

[Jeremy Comans]

A major reason between big differences is extroversion vs introversion. Some people soak up energy by being around a certain level of external stimuli, others need more alone time to recharge. From your Myers-Brigg's, you likely fall softly on the E side of things, but more heavily on the N side. Folk like that usually find pre-occupation an easy task.
I'm an INTJ, I very rarely get bored. But I agree with some people here; there are times I don't feel like much. Usually it is because I've hit my seclusion limit and I feel like talking to someone for a while. But, it is a rare thing indeed.

Ah someone who wants to talk MBTI! I tend to get on well with INTJs - Introverted Intuition fascinates me as a cognitive function. I actually have a good explanation for it to some degree. My lead function is extraverted Intuition, which in some senses is an ambiverted function, in that if I've no one to bounce ideas, possibilities and experiences off, I'll just do it in my mind on my own. Are you on the personality cafe forum?

What is it, I find myself rather eager to ask, fascinates you about IN's?

 

[dscross]

A major reason between big differences is extroversion vs introversion. Some people soak up energy by being around a certain level of external stimuli, others need more alone time to recharge. From your Myers-Brigg's, you likely fall softly on the E side of things, but more heavily on the N side. Folk like that usually find pre-occupation an easy task.
I'm an INTJ, I very rarely get bored. But I agree with some people here; there are times I don't feel like much. Usually it is because I've hit my seclusion limit and I feel like talking to someone for a while. But, it is a rare thing indeed.

Ah someone who wants to talk MBTI! I tend to get on well with INTJs - Introverted Intuition fascinates me as a cognitive function. I actually have a good explanation for it to some degree. My lead function is extraverted Intuition, which in some senses is an ambiverted function, in that if I've no one to bounce ideas, possibilities and experiences off, I'll just do it in my mind on my own. Are you on the personality cafe forum?

What is it, I find myself rather eager to ask, fascinates you about IN's?

Do you know much about the cognitive functions? It's dead facinating. I started a thread on the topic of how Ni (introverted Intuition) works on personality cafe - http://personalitycafe.com/cognitive-functions/1097649-how-do-ni-dominants-think-explained-ne-dominant.html

Should give you a bit of insight into why, as an Ne Dom, I find it so interesting