State of Being Bored
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A State of Being Bored is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings.
- Example(s):
- a Bored Child.
- a Bored Student.
- a Bored Worker.
- a Bored Parent.
- waiting in a long queue (less so if there are many mirrors, or if people jump-the-queue). (Larson, 1987)
- being at a ritualistic daily event that you do not believe in.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Uninterested, Understimulated, Killing Time, Procrastination.
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom Retrieved:2018-8-30.
- In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional or psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. "There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for depression or apathy. It seems to be a specific mental state that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioural, medical and social consequences." According to BBC News, boredom "...can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health"; yet research "...suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn't achieve our creative feats." In Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity, Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as "a discursively articulated phenomenon...boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization — not just a response to the modern world but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents." [1] In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an experience of time and problems of meaning.
- ↑ Goodstein, Elizabeth S. 2005. Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 3.
2013
- (Wittkower, 2013) ⇒ Dylan E. Wittkower. (2013). “Boredom on Facebook.”
- QUOTE: I come to praise boredom, not to bury it. ... Boredom is a listless casting-about for purpose; the drifting existential anguish of one's life experienced as meaningless, even if only temporarily so. It is the feeling that nothing is really worth it, where "it" may be time or effort, and often a vanishingly small amount of either. But boredom is not depression: it does not claim that nothing is actually worth it, or that there is no purpose, only that, at this time, we don't feel that purpose, and don't care to get anything done.