Been thinking lately - Is it okay to be bored? Is it healthy to be bored? Perhaps we need mundane and boring moments in life to make the exciting and stimulating moments stick out? In the current day where nearly everybody has a smartphone in their pocket to provide them with endless stimulation at any time, maybe we should be bored more often? It might make the little things in life stick out a bit more when the brain has time to ponder and not be constantly stimulated. Anyways idk what I'm talking about but discuss!
Its very easy to get bored today since we are over stimulated by everything.
Entertainment works like any drug. The more you consume, the more you need to take to reach the same effects. The situations that bore us today, such as being alone with our thoughts for a few moments, were relaxing to our great-grandfathers.
So for the short-term, I would say it is okay to be bored as we try to taper ourselves off our overstimulation and reset our brain. Soon we shouldn't feel bored as much.
Now others have brought up anehdonia which is a bigger concern. If you are always bored, it could be due to that which is a sign of a big problem.
