Are you ever bored?
Sep. 26th, 2013 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI had a conversation about this with a friend the other day, and I thought I'd ask you guys.
Are you ever bored, in the sense that there is nothing going on in your head and you have nothing to think about? This almost never happens to me. Say I'm stuck waiting an hour for the train. Then I most likely read, or write, or do something else, which means I'm not bored. But if I can't do that, I'm very rarely bored anyway, because there's interesting stuff going on inside my head? I have, like, internalized versions of RL and fictional people inside my head that I hold conversations with (or sometimes that hold conversations with each other). Or there are imagined scenarios running through my mind.
Yeah, I have voices in my head, whatever. :P
Anyway, my friend who I was talking to was amazed at my non-boredom. He said he was bored a lot of the time, and that I should be thankful to my brain for being nice to me. And now that it occurs to me, I am indeed thankful for this.
Are you ever bored, in the sense that there is nothing going on in your head and you have nothing to think about? This almost never happens to me. Say I'm stuck waiting an hour for the train. Then I most likely read, or write, or do something else, which means I'm not bored. But if I can't do that, I'm very rarely bored anyway, because there's interesting stuff going on inside my head? I have, like, internalized versions of RL and fictional people inside my head that I hold conversations with (or sometimes that hold conversations with each other). Or there are imagined scenarios running through my mind.
Yeah, I have voices in my head, whatever. :P
Anyway, my friend who I was talking to was amazed at my non-boredom. He said he was bored a lot of the time, and that I should be thankful to my brain for being nice to me. And now that it occurs to me, I am indeed thankful for this.
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Date: 2013-09-26 07:07 pm (UTC)*nods* That makes sense. I don't think I hold conversations with imaginary people who are not characters I write fiction about? But I do talk to (imaginary versions of) RL people that I know, and what you say about using that to work out problems that can't necessarily be resolved in real life makes a lot of sense. Come to think of it, I probably get my social needs met while I'm isolated up in the mountains by being good at talking to people in my head.
As long as a person is clear on what's imaginary and can readily engage with things that are real, then there's no harm.
*nods again* Yeah, that makes sense, too.