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“I am so bored”
April 28th, 2008 by arielal09
I bet at least once a day you think to yourself, “I am bored.” Well at least I know I am and the people I live around me are. Boredom, in fact just seems part of human nature. Most of us are easily bored. At least, when we do not have way too many problems, which is unfortunate to say since a lot of people do. But still, those people whom tragedies rule their way of living still have experienced boredom. Being bored is just part of our feelings and emotions. I know there is not (well I least I do not believe so) a smiley face in the class chart that reads as an emotion “bored” just like there is one for “happy” and “sad.” But even if boredom hasn’t been granted the honor of a smiley face it is still an emotion most of as (as if not to say all) have experienced. Sometimes is just like a topic that bores us. Like lets say I am in a class which I really do not like (I am not going to mention any to my teachers’ benefit), instead of facing boredom and paying attention for a change I find a distraction, something to keep my mind active. By the first ten minutes of class I will probably be doodling in my notebook. I love art so in this way it is a convenient distraction. Some other people who do not feel this way about art will probably sneak a book under their desk, day dream (that is also one of my favorites), put an earphone under their shirt all the way to their ear and then cover it with hair to listen to music, send text messages with their phones under their desks (which by the way we are not allowed to bring cell phones to school, but really who listens?), between many, many other distractions. And all that effort; the sneaked cell phone or ipod, the drawn on notebook under the desk, the face of seriousness when the brain is in outer space, to keep us from being bored. To me it is just so, well boring to be bored. So I try to find a distraction to keep myself from going crazy. Let’s put a different scenario. For example, I am at home a Sunday afternoon not doing anything really, but I have to be doing something, even if it just lying on my bed thinking and day dreaming. I cannot face the fact that I have nothing significant to do and would rather do something insignificant than being bored. I’ll watch some mindless TV, search the Internet while not looking for something, go to the supermarket with my day, and basically ANYTHING rather than being bored. When I think about it is like I am afraid of being bored, so instead of facing the challenge (being bored) I will do something, anything else to push myself out of it, to not have anything to do with it. So I guess it is just natural for humans to be bored. Someone once told me that animals do not get bored, and even if I do not have the papers to prove it, it sounds believable. I mean how else could the dog in your house sit on the floor and look around, maybe pass hours without moving? The dog is obviously not sleeping or having an entertainment of any sort, then why is it not bored? Maybe it is fact just part of human nature to be bored. It is one of those emotions (if it is in fact an emotion) that only we experience, just as many others. So next time you think “I am so bored”, at least you will know you are not alone.
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