Boredom is associated with boredom.
Boredom is the boredom , discouragement or discontent that a person experiences due to a certain annoyance or when they cannot find something that provides entertainment .
For example: “How boring! The electricity was cut off in my house and I can't go out because it's raining a lot” , “This man's dissertations cause me enormous boredom” , “The boredom ended when Juan found a deck of cards and suggested I play tricks” .
Boredom and meaninglessness
Boredom is often associated with wasting time . When an individual is bored, they do not find meaning in what they are experiencing. At that moment the subject does not perform any action or appears to act "automatically." In certain cases, boredom does promote some type of action, even if it lacks logic or coherence .
Suppose a man feels bored at home. He doesn't have any mandatory tasks to do, but at the same time he can't think of something he wants to do for pleasure or fun. Boredom can lead you to sit or lie down doing nothing, while time inevitably passes. Or, maybe, take him out to eat even if he's not hungry, just to do “something.”
Boredom appears when you cannot find meaning in what you are doing.
A subjective concept
This concept is subjective , as much as love, nostalgia and joy: although millions of people claim to go through these and other states, it is impossible for us to define them in a single way, since each one experiences them with their own nuances. In this particular case, boredom is invariably linked to entertainment , another term that each individual understands in a particular way.
To leave boredom behind, it is necessary to recover entertainment , and that is why the recipe varies according to the tastes of each person . When we show a video that we consider funny to a friend and he doesn't even crack a smile, or when we recommend a movie and receive an unexpectedly negative response, we can't help but remember the old saying "there is nothing written about tastes."
Boredom at work
It is common for boredom to arise when a person is carrying out a routine activity out of obligation . An office worker can get bored at his job and yet must continue to carry out the tasks assigned to him since he needs the money he earns for his work.
If our work does not arouse genuine interest in us, it is normal that we do not worry about improving and learning new techniques so that our performance increases, at least not spontaneously. This lack of movement results in the activity being carried out almost involuntarily, which increases the feeling of stagnation and, consequently, generates boredom.
On the other hand, boredom can also appear in the middle of a pleasurable activity, perhaps as a result of anxiety or tiredness. Since we don't always understand our sensations clearly, we sometimes confuse a lack of energy with boredom or sadness, for example.
A positive effect
It is important to mention that many psychologists maintain that boredom, at certain times, is positive because it promotes creativity : the bored person must think about what to do with their free time to entertain themselves. This can also occur in the middle of a season of low self-esteem, stress or relationship problems, among other cases.
Although boredom is a normal sensation and is not a sign of a disorder, it can appear as one of the symptoms of certain diseases associated with a lack of willpower, such as adolescent apathy . In these cases, the state extends over time and seems to have no solution, which is why it is not common for the patient to channel it through creativity.