I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.