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ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz User ID: 5962985 United States 11/13/2012 08:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The things to which people assign importance just don't matter to me anymore. It's not that I hate anyone or anything, I simply can't be bothered. Believe me, I wish I could find things that mattered; things about which I could get excited or worked up; even things that aroused anger in me...but I can't. It seems like a foregone conclusion (to me, at least) that it's just a matter of time before boredom and ennui get the better of me and I "check out." I know there will be people I leave behind who are devastated, but I'm sure they'll get over it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27670202 United States 11/13/2012 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For the past several years (I'm 32 years old), I've found myself incredibly bored with everything life has to offer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1185559 Of course there are things I enjoy, for a while, but there is nothing I really look forward to. Everything is so boring to me. Every topic, subject, activity... life itself is boring. I'm not depressed. I'm just bored with living. I don't welcome death, but I don't fear it either. And I can tell you right now that I do NOT want to come back again. It's just too damn boring here. Anyone else? Mass media feeds a steady stream of peak-state vicarious living that is more glamorous, exciting, adventurous, etc., and always with a nice soundtrack, which makes real life pale by comparison. Add alcohol and drugs to that and it's a recipe for apathy. Cut out the mass media, alcohol, and drugs and go spend time in the mountains or at the beach. It will only take a few months to get back to reality and reset you biological, mental, and spiritual defaults. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27670202 United States 11/13/2012 08:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For the past several years (I'm 32 years old), I've found myself incredibly bored with everything life has to offer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1185559 Of course there are things I enjoy, for a while, but there is nothing I really look forward to. Everything is so boring to me. Every topic, subject, activity... life itself is boring. I'm not depressed. I'm just bored with living. I don't welcome death, but I don't fear it either. And I can tell you right now that I do NOT want to come back again. It's just too damn boring here. Anyone else? Mass media feeds a steady stream of peak-state vicarious living that is more glamorous, exciting, adventurous, etc., and always with a nice soundtrack, which makes real life pale by comparison. Add alcohol and drugs to that and it's a recipe for apathy. Cut out the mass media, alcohol, and drugs and go spend time in the mountains or at the beach. It will only take a few months to get back to reality and reset you biological, mental, and spiritual defaults. *reset your |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28284536 United States 12/12/2012 12:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you have kids? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1323328I'm thinking a family is supposed to take your mind off it for another twenty years or so until you're too tired to care about being bored. No kids. Absolutely no interest in having children, nor getting married. I just want to be alone really. But yes, I would imagine having a family would take your mind off of it all. I don't understand why people do it, to be honest. Because of the most powerful energy there is out there....Love |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28284536 United States 12/12/2012 12:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you have kids? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1323328I'm thinking a family is supposed to take your mind off it for another twenty years or so until you're too tired to care about being bored. No kids. Absolutely no interest in having children, nor getting married. I just want to be alone really. But yes, I would imagine having a family would take your mind off of it all. I don't understand why people do it, to be honest. Because of the most powerful energy there is out there....Love |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29117977 United States 12/12/2012 02:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Daily Planet In the morning we arise and Start the day the same old way As yesterday the day before and All in all it's just a day like All the rest so do your best with Chewing gum and it is oh so Repetitious Waiting on the sun Down on go-stop boulevard it Never fails to bring me down The sirens and the accidents and For a laugh there's plastic Nancy She's real fancy with her children They'll go far, she Buys them toys to Keep in practice Waiting on the war I feel shivers in my spine When the iceman, yes his ice is melting Won't be there on time Hope he finds a rhyme For his little mind I can see you With no (hands) (face) Eyes I need you You're my (heart) (face) Look we're going round and round |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14451689 United Kingdom 12/12/2012 02:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Over my decades of boredom I've pinpointed a few issues that seem to be the root cause. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1288478 Society is a closed-loop. We have a limited range of experience available to us, by design. Our creativity is suppressed or funneled into the mechanisms that keep us on hamster wheel. Our dreams and hopes are stolen and sold back to us via cheap knock-offs. There is no fulfillment in being a slave. There is no fulfillment in living to work. There is no fulfillment here at all. Having kids is just bringing more slaves into the meat grinder. Having a family is what's left from the engineered isolationism we face as a species. And well, rampant engineered stupidity is boring. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 631756 Estonia 12/12/2012 03:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | GOOD FOR YOU OP Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1325983YOU ARE READY FOR THE NEXT JUMP IN CONSCIOUSNESS YOU OWNED THE DRAMA OF HUMANITY. YOU ARE DONE WITH PROCREATION,PAIN AND POWER. YOU SEEN ALL THE MOVIES HAD ALL THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU ARE READY. DON'T GIVE UP NOW A NEW DAY AWAITS US. CONGRATULATIONS. I was wondering if someone would mention this. I am extremely spiritual now due to the utter boredom with life. I am starting to look inward. I'm going within, because everything external is a huge bore! I know how you feel. This is exactly how I feel about life now. There is nothing new in this density and in this planet. I am done with human dramas, this does not tickle my being one bit. I too am not with deathwish, and I do not afraid of it when it comes, I am not into suicide, just spending my days one by one, working, socializing. But in the end of day.. i feel.. I have learned my lessons, this class is dismissed. BTW: I am 36 yrs old male. I am physically and mentally in great shape. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14296678 New Zealand 12/12/2012 04:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The Institute of Psychiatry in London completed a study in 2005 that looked at the brain activity of those diagnosed with anhedonia and compared the results to those gained from healthy subjects. They discovered that the brain actually works differently in those suffering from the disorder. These differences were found in three key areas: Ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Deals with empathy and negative emotions Ventral striatum: Signals reward Amygdale: Handles mood changes and helps to forget recent negative events In those with anhedonia, the prefrontal cortex had difficulty in processing happiness and had to work harder than normal. As well as this, there was less activity in the ventral striatum and the amygdale. These changes disrupt the brain’s reward system, making it less likely that any positive emotions are felt regardless of what the patient is doing. This breakdown then becomes a key component of depression as the patient cannot gain any pleasure out of activities that would otherwise have been enjoyable." [link to en.wikipedia.org] google 'anhedonia natural treatment' for some non drug approaches to dealing with this problem. good luck! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29130142 Finland 12/12/2012 04:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Over my decades of boredom I've pinpointed a few issues that seem to be the root cause. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1288478 Society is a closed-loop. We have a limited range of experience available to us, by design. Our creativity is suppressed or funneled into the mechanisms that keep us on hamster wheel. Our dreams and hopes are stolen and sold back to us via cheap knock-offs. There is no fulfillment in being a slave. There is no fulfillment in living to work. There is no fulfillment here at all. Having kids is just bringing more slaves into the meat grinder. Having a family is what's left from the engineered isolationism we face as a species. And well, rampant engineered stupidity is boring. +1 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29130142 Finland 12/12/2012 05:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I must also say, after pondering this for years, that it's obvious that some of us are forced to take more than our fair share of this crap, since so few (even among those having some level of spiritual awareness) are actually awake, meaning that they would be ready to create the kind of world we all need in order to feel happy and able to express ourselves. Been waiting for years, doing my work alone with zero resources, being so patient I'm now beginning to doubt if there's any point in "letting things proceed on their own pace". Nothing seems to have come out of that strategy. I'm ready to be mad now, friends. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25044356 United States 12/12/2012 05:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For the past several years (I'm 32 years old), I've found myself incredibly bored with everything life has to offer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1185559 Of course there are things I enjoy, for a while, but there is nothing I really look forward to. Everything is so boring to me. Every topic, subject, activity... life itself is boring. I'm not depressed. I'm just bored with living. I don't welcome death, but I don't fear it either. And I can tell you right now that I do NOT want to come back again. It's just too damn boring here. Anyone else? Damn, OP. Sounds like you read my mind. Only reasons why I haven't put myself out of my own misery is because of family and the thought of having to be reincarnated again makes me sick. Better to just stick this lifetime out and hope I'm not forced to come back again. And no, I'm not depressed. Just tired of everything. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6905614 United Kingdom 12/12/2012 05:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I ain't got no fun today It's just like yesterday, oh yeah Only different shades of grey I'm bored right out of my skull I'd have to get high just to be dull I'm institutional My TV screen spins around and around and around and around... [link to www.youtube.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18272351 United States 12/12/2012 06:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, truly done with this crap. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29130142 Extremely boring, has been for years already. Where are the concrete changes? Where are masses of awakened people making it happen, helping and supporting each other? I've got no motivation left for anything anymore. Agreed. I've no patience for the age of Aquarius. I'm mentally and emotionally done, but my physicality lingers. |
Pyractomena borealis User ID: 20793638 United States 12/12/2012 06:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This life at this time is anything but boring. Sorry for you. Last Edited by Pyractomena borealis on 12/12/2012 07:00 AM There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange ~ Daniel Webster Omnia Vincit Amor ~ Virgil The more you learn, the less you know ~ Socrates That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. ~ Charles Caleb Colton |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18272351 United States 12/12/2012 06:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sounds like we have some 'anhedonia' sufferers, its a medical condition. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14296678 "The Institute of Psychiatry in London completed a study in 2005 that looked at the brain activity of those diagnosed with anhedonia and compared the results to those gained from healthy subjects. They discovered that the brain actually works differently in those suffering from the disorder. These differences were found in three key areas: Ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Deals with empathy and negative emotions Ventral striatum: Signals reward Amygdale: Handles mood changes and helps to forget recent negative events In those with anhedonia, the prefrontal cortex had difficulty in processing happiness and had to work harder than normal. As well as this, there was less activity in the ventral striatum and the amygdale. These changes disrupt the brain’s reward system, making it less likely that any positive emotions are felt regardless of what the patient is doing. This breakdown then becomes a key component of depression as the patient cannot gain any pleasure out of activities that would otherwise have been enjoyable." [link to en.wikipedia.org] google 'anhedonia natural treatment' for some non drug approaches to dealing with this problem. good luck! I didn’t read the entire article, but if you’re suggesting that there is something “off” or unhealthy about us because we feel things differently and aren’t pushed into shallow bouts of excitement by the mundane and unintriguing than you can keep the diagnosis. Anything involving a minority group is not inherently flawed. Maybe we are more enlightened, curious, awake, spiritual or even just imaginative. I don’t doubt that our brains would look different, but that doesn’t mean that we need a chemical correction. Gaining happiness in the form of "smiley pills" does not yield genuine happiness. I know what is meant by “ignorance is bliss,” but I still don't want it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29130142 Finland 12/12/2012 07:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I didn’t read the entire article, but if you’re suggesting that there is something “off” or unhealthy about us because we feel things differently and aren’t pushed into shallow bouts of excitement by the mundane and unintriguing than you can keep the diagnosis. Anything involving a minority group is not inherently flawed. Maybe we are more enlightened, curious, awake, spiritual or even just imaginative. I don’t doubt that our brains would look different, but that doesn’t mean that we need a chemical correction. Gaining happiness in the form of "smiley pills" does not yield genuine happiness. I know what is meant by “ignorance is bliss,” but I still don't want it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18272351 +1 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28760789 New Zealand 12/12/2012 07:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I didn’t read the entire article, but if you’re suggesting that there is something “off” or unhealthy about us because we feel things differently and aren’t pushed into shallow bouts of excitement by the mundane and unintriguing than you can keep the diagnosis. Anything involving a minority group is not inherently flawed. Maybe we are more enlightened, curious, awake, spiritual or even just imaginative. I don’t doubt that our brains would look different, but that doesn’t mean that we need a chemical correction. Gaining happiness in the form of "smiley pills" does not yield genuine happiness. I know what is meant by “ignorance is bliss,” but I still don't want it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18272351 +1 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 6318379 United States 12/12/2012 08:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bored with your safe, predictable life? Tried everything and found it wanting? Poor little babies. Go to Africa and work in a refuge camp. Walk out your comfortable back door and visit those who need comforting in your community. Go help an addict get clean. I doubt the mamas in Syria are complaining about being bored. You need a perspective shift! There are reasons to be depressed. I don't want a rewind here either. But not because I'm bored. I fucking VASTLY overestimated my ability to handle the shit I signed up to do this roll on the wheel. Bored? Geez! You can read GLP, stalk doom, wallow in catastrophes. Study the past; envision the future. As I used to say to my kids when I heard "I'm bored... "Go baby, go baby. Go! Go! Go! ". Find your inner enthusiasm! Fly your freak flag. |