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Damn I'm bored these days. It's becoming more and more difficult to find people to party with, everyone I used to party with have got various things happening in their lives - gone over seas, kids, moved interstate, working, etc.

Not really sure how to get out of this rut of going to work and home again like a drone. Am I getting old? Anyone else suddenly realise how boring their life has become?

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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other".

.Arthur Schopenhauer

“When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.” Joseph Brodsky.

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Boredom, fuck I've forgotten what that's like.

I wish I had the time to be bored.

Don't think about about the boredom, think about the possibilities the future could hold if you take a few steps to create them.

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is it loneliness or boredom man ?

If It is boredom, that can be remedied. My advice is make a bucketlist and start doing some things you want to do but never get round too. scuba diving, orienteering, skydiving, downhill racing... anything that tickles ya pink bits.

break that monotonous routine. You will meet more people that way too.

Put yourself out there.

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Boredom, fuck I've forgotten what that's like.

I wish I had the time to be bored.

 

This ^

Boredom is wasted on the young, the lonely and the lazy.

I also wish I had time to be bored.

The importance of being idle.

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Oh no you have fallen into the 9-5 routine which is joyless if you don't have a family to come home to. Embrace activities and hobbies that you are passionate about and before you know it there is not enough time in the day to the things you want. If you think you have no passions maybe you are just demotivated or lazy, a Mullumbimby road trip might fix that.

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my advise embrace those mundane drone pennys, party ppl come and go & usually end up being the falsest of mates,who are only there for the good times, except for the ones you can count on yr left hand,who ride straight and stand true no matter what level of demoncy your going thru, with maturtiy comes commitments & boring ass shitty responsibilitys....but when you have that my time, those drone pennys are saved up & you can always unleash one hell of hell ride good time, to make up for the sacrifice you have endured!

Also these boring time are best to find your inner passions, reflect, revel your creativity, learn lessons of patience which can disclose enlightenment.

so many times i found myself mixed up in relationships, mates and shit and lost my true inner uniqueness,kinda like my intelligence was apprehended by others and there endevours.......so now i enjoy my master recluse, and secretly prepare for my own grandmaster plan, fuck what others are doing focus on yr self at the end of day when your gasping yr last breathe, its about what made yr own self happiness and what made you walk thru life with a smile!

 

 

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i dont know how someone with this

username could be bored.

do yoga or something

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Perhaps you just need to lower the standard of your friends. Go into your city on a wednesday at 1am and stay until damn and hang out with those people. They may be self destructive but no doubt they will not be boring.

But people change - people move in different directions. Go overseas!

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I'm bored - I'm the chairman of the board - I'm a lengthy monologue - I'm livin' like a dog - I'm Bored

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Last time I was bored I filled my time with endless bushwalking, listening to my mp3 player, endless talks by Terence McKenna et al (courtesy of the Psychedelic Salon).

When my money was gone I decided I needed to "do something" but rather than focus on what I wanted to do, I decided to find out where I wanted to be, so I thought about it and went there, the last of my dollars were spent on a weeks rent in a busy youth hostel and a job just landed in my lap.

I found a little hut at the foot of the mountain and in between gathering in the money I meditated lots which basically involved going in to the bush, finding a nice view and just sitting there for hours contemplating.

It was really rather a wonderful time.

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hang out with strippers there always got some shit goin on and there the perfect eye candy to never be bored!

 

*high five*

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I've been severely bored for a few years now, which is pretty sad being in my mid twenties :\

But, I do find that reading and learning do help a little where / when the social situations lack.

I'm interested in socialising, just not around drunk, arrogant fuck wits. Doofing is okay, but I haven't done that for a while

as it too became a bit same-same. To be quite frank, as pretentious and elitist as this may sound, I find most people extremely boring.

It's really really hard to have a decent, engaging conversation with people. Most seem happy talking about trivial BS :\

I also actually really really love my job; it's challenging, engaging, research oriented.

It's the whole package of living a boring, meaningless existence that's shitting me.

And shit, studying philosophy for several years now (both personally and at university) has left me just as bitter and cynical as before.

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Studying philosophy has left you cynical and bitter but I bet you keep going back to it.

I think I keep coming back here because people here actually think and discuss things rather than just settling into the stereotypical beer-footy existence.

I think most of the great minds from times past were not entirely happy with the world around them, could be part of the motivation for all that thinking ?

Could be motivation for change as well, possibility is a much more creative word than boredom.

Who knows where possibility ends ?

The next time you feel bored, start thinking of possibilities, who knows what your mind will create.

Fuck boredom think of what could be.

Boredom is acceptance, the world has cast this on me type thinking.

Possibility is infinite.

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become a heroin addict, you'll always have something to do then :wink:

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I don't know how one can actually be bored. I have already got more books to read and things to learn, places to go and events to participate in, things to practice and master, relaxation to be had, people to know - than I could accomplish in the next 500 years.

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Studying philosophy has left you cynical and bitter but I bet you keep going back to it.

I think I keep coming back here because people here actually think and discuss things rather than just settling into the stereotypical beer-footy existence.

 

Yes.. Reminds me of Voltaire's Story of the Good Brahmin:

http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Voltaire's%20Story%20Of%20The%20Good%20Brahmin.htm

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I think boredom is often a state of mind rather than an actually running out of novelty or new things to do.

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Damn I'm bored these days. It's becoming more and more difficult to find people to party with, everyone I used to party with have got various things happening in their lives - gone over seas, kids, moved interstate, working, etc.

Not really sure how to get out of this rut of going to work and home again like a drone. Am I getting old? Anyone else suddenly realise how boring their life has become?

 

You said it, your just in a rut. It's time to start looking for what you want. Breaking that headspace isn't as hard as you think, just have a run at it.

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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other".

.Arthur Schopenhauer

“When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.” Joseph Brodsky.

 

Love it.

Boredom, fuck I've forgotten what that's like.

I wish I had the time to be bored.

Don't think about about the boredom, think about the possibilities the future could hold if you take a few steps to create them.

 

It's not that I'm sitting around with nothing to do, it's just that everything I have to do eats up all my time.

Oh no you have fallen into the 9-5 routine which is joyless if you don't have a family to come home to. Embrace activities and hobbies that you are passionate about and before you know it there is not enough time in the day to the things you want. If you think you have no passions maybe you are just demotivated or lazy, a Mullumbimby road trip might fix that.

 

Very true. I want to move to NE NSW in a few years, land there is so damn expensive.

my advise embrace those mundane drone pennys, party ppl come and go & usually end up being the falsest of mates,who are only there for the good times, except for the ones you can count on yr left hand,who ride straight and stand true no matter what level of demoncy your going thru, with maturtiy comes commitments & boring ass shitty responsibilitys....but when you have that my time, those drone pennys are saved up & you can always unleash one hell of hell ride good time, to make up for the sacrifice you have endured!

Also these boring time are best to find your inner passions, reflect, revel your creativity, learn lessons of patience which can disclose enlightenment.

so many times i found myself mixed up in relationships, mates and shit and lost my true inner uniqueness,kinda like my intelligence was apprehended by others and there endevours.......so now i enjoy my master recluse, and secretly prepare for my own grandmaster plan, fuck what others are doing focus on yr self at the end of day when your gasping yr last breathe, its about what made yr own self happiness and what made you walk thru life with a smile!

 

 

 

Hrmmmm.

become a heroin addict, you'll always have something to do then :wink:

 

Hahahaha, tis the season ;)

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