Things Everyone Goes Through

Arrive Uninvited But Expected

Burn Like Copper

Burn Like Winter

End Conversations

Expand In An Empty One

Feel Dull

Feel Irreversible

Feel Overdressed

Feel Overexplained

Feel Overlit

Feel Overripe

Feel Overthought

Feel Overtime

Feel Too New For The Room

Feel Undertime

Hide In Plain Sight

Lose An Hour

Make A Day Feel Longer

Never Use The Same Voice Twice

Put You To Sleep

Quietly Measure Character

Ring Like Lint

Ring Like Milk

Ring Like Paper

Ring Like Salt

Ring Like Silence

Smell Like Dust

Smell Like Milk

Smell Like Summer

Sound Like Iron

Sound Like Static

Sound Like Wine

Stick Like Rain

Stick Like Rope

Stick Like Salt

Stick Like Water

Stick Like Wood

Survive Translation

Take Attention Without Asking

Taste Like Silence

Taste Like Wine

Weigh Like Ash

Weigh Like Echo

Weigh Like Metal

Weigh Like Mildew

Weigh Like Milk

Weigh Like Morning

Weigh Like Silence

Weigh Like Smoke

Weigh Like Stone

Weigh Like Sugar

Weigh Like Water

boredom

dad joke

meat eating

novelty

hobby

parenting

exercise

social media

trivia

loneliness

stress eating

flirting

ADHD

selflessness

hunger

coping mechanism

is (as not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life) the worst form of mental suffering.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces. Erich Fromm

is a developmental achievement insofar as it is an irritable state and a recurrent sense of emptiness out of which one's real desire can crystallize.

Boredom is actually a precarious process in which the child is, as it were, both waiting for something and looking for something, in which hope is being secretly negotiated... and in this sense boredom is akin to free-floating attention. In the muffled, sometimes irritable confusion of boredom the child is reaching to a recurrent sense of emptiness out of which his real desire can crystallize The capacity to be bored can be a developmental achievement for the child.

is a fearsome prospect as there's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then' J. G. Ballard

is a fundamental component of modern life and of its phantasmagoria.

He thus recognized that boredom is a fundamental component of modern life and of its phantasmagoria and planned to include its analysis in his work on the prehistory of modernity. However

is a modern phenomenon experienced in earlier civilizations only by the privileged classes enabled by man's very success in inventing labor-saving devices.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. (Lewis Mumford)

is a mood associated with the aesthetic stage of self-actualisation: When we are deeply bored, we are likely to see the meaningless of our everyday pleasures and to question our values.

For Kierkegaard, boredom is a mood associated with the aesthetic stage of self-actualisation: when we are deeply bored, we are likely to see the meaningless of our everyday pleasures and to question our values.

is a point along the temporal trajectory of that which is interesting. While many people think they are doing great honor to something by finding it interesting they have in fact already relegated the thing to the ranks of what is soon-boring.

Interest, interesse, means to be among and in the midst of things, or to be at the center of a thing and to stay with it. But today's interest accepts as valid only what is interesting. And interesting is the sort of thing that can freely be regarded as indifferent the next moment, and be displaced by something else, which then concerns us just as little as what went before. Many people today take the view that they are doing great honor to something by finding it interesting. The truth is that such an opinion has already relegated the interesting thing to the ranks of what is indifferent and soon boring' (Heidegger 1954: 5)

is a psychic sickness. A patient who sustains the analyst's interest, no matter how grave the conflict, can still be helped in analysis. One who is boring to the analyst needs psychiatric treatment.

'If a person comes and talks to you and, listening to him, you feel he is boring you, then he is sick, and needs psychiatric treatment. But if he sustains your interest, no matter how grave his distress or conflict, then you can help him alright.' (winnicott : Holding and Interpretation : 1)

boredom, n.Trivia

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