Boredom seems to go hand in hand with becoming an adult.
Sure, there are plenty of exciting things that happen, but eventually, you’re going to hit a point at which everything just seems like it’s not worth the effort.
“I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored” – Pina Bausch
While pockets of boredom are quite normal, that’s not quite the same as being bored with life. When you’re bored of life, your default state reverts to wondering why you even get out of bed. There’s nothing worth doing, after all, so why bother?
If you want to kick this feeling to the curb, you’ll need to start by identifying what you mean by feeling bored, take a look at what causes boredom, and then find ways to change your life so that you can recapture a sense of excitement.
My Life is Boring
What does it really mean to feel bored, anyway?
For many, boredom is a nebulous feeling. It is undoubtedly quite powerful in your life, but it’s not something you always sit down and think about.
If you want to beat boredom, though, you have first to identify what it means to you.
Fortunately, there are some characteristics of boredom that are relatively easy to identify, even if not all of them apply directly to you.
A Lack of Excitement
For some, boredom is really just a lack of excitement. It’s not that there aren’t things to do – in fact, there might be an overwhelming number of things to do – but that none of those things are actually enjoyable.
Boredom tends to strike when life seems, for lack of a better term, normal. Nothing gets your heart racing or your pulse-pounding, so things just seem to go by slowly.
This is the sort of boredom that you might experience during a slow day on the job. You know you have to be at work for a certain number of hours, but time goes by slowly since you’re basically repeating the same patterns over and over again.
A Lack of Opportunity
Boredom can also take the form of a lack of opportunity. You want to do things, but there’s nothing to do. You have all the time and energy in the world, but you have nowhere to spend them.
This kind of boredom, as you might expect, is incredibly frustrating.
The boredom that stems from lack of opportunity is the kind of boredom that will drive you crazy because it’s externally focused rather than being something that you can change from within yourself.
The boredom that stems from lack of opportunity is the kind of boredom that will drive you crazy
A Lack of Escape
Boredom can also come from feeling trapped in your routine. You’re not bored because there’s nothing to do or nowhere to go, but rather because you’re stuck doing the same things over and over again.
Whether you’re working at a job you hate or you are stuck at home on a Friday night because you are broke, boredom caused by feeling trapped is hard to fight. After all, the only way you can get out is by changing how your life works.
The Root Causes of Boredom
Now that you can better identify the types of boredom that you experience, you can start figuring out a way to banish it from your life.
Not bad, right?
To get there, though, you’ll need to start identifying what’s causing …
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