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I want to do something new

i am feeling bored

X:”hey Y, it have been a while, how are you?”
Y: ”iam fine,I am just a little bored, this city is really boring, I want to do something new”

Sounds familiar huh? , usually that’s the response of a great number of people when they are asked how are they doing. Yes, you may feel bored every now and then, once in while but there is one thing that you may have not known yet, boredom is 99% of the time internal and not external!!!

internal boredom

when you think that you are bored because there are no new places to go to or because of the daily routine then you may be wrong, the truth is that boredom is an internal feeling, its inside of you, going to a new place or breaking the routine will only make you feel less bored for a few days and as soon as you resume back your normal life, you will feel bored again.

Our biggest problem is that we have built a strong habit of blaming external conditions for all of our problems, we have built a habit of playing the role of the victim, we have built a habit of not taking responsibly of our lives and of our emotions, we just throw away all of our problems upon any external factor or person in order not to feel guilty.

how to know if am really bored?

You may be wondering how could you know if your feeling of boredom is internal or its just because you really do need a change, the answer is very simple, if you made that change and then shortly after returning back to your normal life you felt the same, then you have got a problem that is causing you to feel bored. You have got internal bordem!!

how do peopple blame the external conditions

The follwing are a few examples of how some people incorrectly blame external conditions rather than spotting the real problem:

  • blaming places instead of people:
  • like when you say that you want to go to somewhere new because you are bored of the city you leave in, while the problem is usually that you are bored with the people you go out with and not the places, if you enjoy the company of your current friends much, you wont look for places. Of course you are not asked to change your friends but at least broaden you social relations so that you could see different people

  • blaming routine instead of the task itself:
  • this is where you blame the daily routine instead of thinking that you may not be liking what you do!!, like someone who studies medicine while hating it or someone who works at a company that he doesn’t like its type of work

  • blaming people instead of yourself:
  • like when you blame people by saying that they became so boring while the problem may be that you may have become bored and so you started not to talk to them like you used to do and so they responded back with the same actions, and so appeared to be boring.

if you are happy, you wont feel bored

Know that if you are bored, you will see everything as boring and if you are happy and satisfied, you will see every as interesting, it all depends about your perspective and not the external conditions, try to search for the reasons that are making you feel so, and fix them instead of blaming everything around you.

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This article is a bit confused.

apfistler's picture
Fri, 01/18/2008 - 00:20
apfistler

This article seems to be confusing things a bit here.

The feeling of bordom is the feeling we get when we aren't adquetly challenged. The way to satisfy boredom is to find a new way to challenge us.

The problem occurs in the situation described in the article when people confuse other feelings with boredom. It isn't uncommon for people to confuse lonleyness with boredom or even confuse the feeling of sadness with bordom.

It is cases where people confuse boredom with other feelings where they will watch TV, or go to other places and still not feel satisified. Lonleyness is the need for human contact. Watching TV, or going out and not meeting anyone will only at best distract from these feelings and the feelings will return after you are done distracting from them.

Sadness is the feeling you get when you lost something of value. The way to satisfy sadness is to replace what you lost.

Now when the author described things like blaming the city, or blaming the place you go to, or blaming the route. This isn't really bordom, but it's a secondary feeling called frustration. Frustration occurs when what you are trying to do isn't working. The way to satisfy frustration is the satisfy the primary cause of the feeling, be it boredom, sadness, or lonleyness.

See people because to confuse these feelings because sometimes they either feel the same, or they think that for feelings of sadness or lonleyness to exist they have to be in exteme. But when I speak of emotions, I mean the everyday ordinary feelings, not emotional crisis.

Smokers will smoke, eaters will eat, drinkers will drink because they think that they are bored. Most of the time how ever if they begin to really think about the thoughts and feelings they begin the realize that they have other feelings instead of bordeom like sadness or lonliness. Most of the time every time I have followed boredom back it came to either sadness or lonliness. And if its lonleyness then one needs to examine the reasons why one has a hard time meeting someone. In many cases this goes back on a fear and by resolving that fear, the reason for the inability to meet people is gone, so the lonleyness resolves and no more bad feeling.

It is however to get a real solid foundation in the Secret Language of Feelings, because if you know what your thoughts are telling you, you can find out what the true feeling is. Once you know what the true feeling is, then you know how to satisfy it. And satisfying a feeling is the only way to get rid of it.