What is boredom?
Question:
more from other people than they are getting or are they just spoiled rotten....
I was never bored while growing up there was to much to do and see to be bored
Answers:
Boredom....maybe it is why we go on this Yahoo "Question and Answer" site?...LOL. Boredom is the feeling of not having anything to do and the need for stimulation...You are right, when I was young too, I was never bored....either I was out with friends, reading, enjoying a hobby, going places with family, etc.....Times are different....technology has made incredible strides in entertainment...computers, I-Pods, video games, cell/camera phones, the list goes on and on, as you know. I feel that with all these strides, we have lost touch with ourselves and our peers. We have now overlooked the human response and closeness people had years ago....people sat around and talked and had fun together without the accompaniment of a high- tech instrument or gadget in their hands..... Now, you buy that "new item", use it, and get bored (that is what happens with kids when they have "too" much) ....and it just perpetuates itself. We should involve ourselves more with our loved ones...spouses, children, friends more and have more "fun" that way........Exercise, learn a hobby or a skill, volunteer.....stuff like that. Step away from the computer, too...ha! ha!
Other Answers:
Boredom is a state of being weary and restless through lack of interest. Good for you! An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Boredom is a reactive state of emotion that interprets the condition of one's environment as wearingly dull due to repetitive, non-existent or tedious stimuli. Boredom stems from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually) when not in the mood of "doing anything." Often it is a clearly subjective state; one person may find economics "boring," for example, while another may find it riveting.
Those afflicted with temporary boredom may regard the affliction as a waste of time, but usually characterize boredom as far worse. Alternatively, one may have the feeling that having too much spare time causes boredom. Indeed, time often appears to move more slowly to someone who experiences boredom, resulting from the way in which the human mind measures the passage of time and by the infrequency of notable events. Boredom can also occur as a symptom of clinical depression and may lead to impulsive (and sometimes excessive) actions that serve little purpose and could damage one's self interest. For example, studies in behavioral finance have shown that stock traders can enter into "overtrading" (buying or selling even without any objective reason to do so) simply because they feel bored when they have nothing "productive" to do.
Boredom can come from a lack of interest in a topic. This could result in a neuroreaction, in which case the mind wavers from the topic and into a subconcious thought. The brain will automatically go into a state, exempt from the objects around, but more focused on the matter in the "dream" state of mind. Boredom is similar to daydreaming, in a sense, because in both cases, the person thinks of an imaginable thought. In the case of boredom, however, the person's imagination takes over subconciously to pursue a more enjoyable thought. Often when one is bored, they invent things to solve this boredom, productive or not.
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