• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    “Bored” pisses me off. There’s too much to do, to learn, to experience to be fucking bored. I mean, unless you’re stuck at work or some shit.

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          1 year ago

          Speaking from experience depression has the power to render everything you used to find passion and joy in utterly unenjoyable. It sucks, and you get bored, and then you feel bad that you are bored and not doing the things you are supposed to enjoy. Have some empathy for those of us struggling :)

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            1 year ago

            OK. You are talking about depression. I am talking about boredom. They are not the same thing, though one may be symptomatic of the other. If you think your boredom is a result of depression, I suggest you seek help somewhere that’s not an online forum.

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      1 year ago

      I am bored and I have plenty to do, the bigger selection makes it impossible to choose and then I do not choose.

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        1 year ago

        In the words of Neil Peart, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

        Work on making a better one.

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      That’s the point isn’t it? If we’re unlucky much of our life might revolve around going to work and doing maintenance around going to work and sleeping. Now I agree that anyone in that position probably has a choice they could make to free up their life but it’s quite a feat of will power to do it. There are also people in this cycle that have started families and don’t have much freedom.

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        There are also people in this cycle that have started families and don’t have much freedom.

        I’d argue that people with families have even fewer excuses for being bored.

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      1 year ago

      There is but all of it takes MONEY!! and TIME!!!. And i don’t have enough alcohol around me to not be bored. Best I can do is video games(I’m lucky to have a laptop).

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        1 year ago

        If you have a laptop that can play video games, there is so much else you can do. Not that there’s anything wrong with video games. Video games are awesome.

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          I can, learned to use Linux. Learning python now. But I was talking about real world things like camping, and going on trips, watching snowfall(I’ve never seen snowfall), going to the beach or the zoo. You can only spend so much time in the virtual world, but the real world takes money and time.

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        gaming is great (I usually play an hour or 2 a day) but break it up a bit. maybe do an online micro credential, you can normally find free short courses. learn a language (easy to do for free if you have internet and some time). learn a new skill. learn design so you can put the laptop to work. and every now and then, when gaming burns you out, learning is too much and you literally have no chance to do anything else, sit under a tree for a little bit. yes, even at night. it’ll help