Are you ever bored?

[luzula]

I 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.

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

There's a downside to holding conversations with in-your-head versions of real people, of course -- not only are they not actually present for the conversation, but (if you're me) it's hard to *not* do the wheel-spinning rehashing-of-a-hypothetical-fight thing. Which one might like to turn off. :)

[luzula]

Heh. Well, of course, it's not always good to create your own version of a person in your head (although I do like to think I know the difference). I suppose this is in part what we do when we're in love?

I dunno, I almost never fight with people, so that's not an issue for me. But I do rehash things I wish I'd done otherwise.