Instead, only try to realise the truth: There is no bored

Boredom is just something that’s in your mind. It is not real, it does not exist, you cannot hold it. Still, that doesn’t stop it from being a complete pain in the ass sometimes.

However, just realising that boredom is all in the mind can help alleviate it, if not get rid of it all together. A few minutes before I started writing this blog post, I was so bored that they could have erected a monument in honor of my services to boredom. However, I then realised that what I was feeling was all in the mind, and it mostly went. I’m writing this to get rid of the remainder, which brings me on to my second tactic for getting rid of boredom: Just do something.

Since most of my boredom stems from wanting to do something, but having no idea what to do, I find that just doing anything can help. For instance, I started writing this blog post. If nothing else, the act of writing this will help distract me from my thoughts about how bored I was, so as a result I won’t be bored any more. Of course, since I’m writing about boredom I’ll still be thinking about boredom, so perhaps writing this post wasn’t a flawless plan after all. Well, at least I’m doing something to keep my mind busy.

On the other hand, I’d imagine that meditating could count as doing something, but it’s also sort of doing nothing. However, if your mind is spinning with “OH MY GOD I’M SO BORED” then it might not work. Then again, if you were good enough at meditation you could silence those thoughts and then everything would be fine. It’s just another way of stopping yourself thinking about being bored, I suppose.

Well, I’m feeling less bored now, and I hope you will feel less bored too.

Now I need to find something else to do.