Boredom is...

It's been so long, since that time T_T I've never write here, it's not because of I don't wanna write here, but I can't log into here. It's such a terrible case. Well, then I could fix it hoho... It's just a trouble of the wrong time and date set on my computer, What a great girl I am !! Many time passed by, without noticed, I don't know, where should I spill out all of my emotions, then because of the past trouble, I decided to write my stories on my diary LOL. So, what will I bring to you now ?? About my new year ?? Well, it's not really great nor amazing :(

On the new year nite, I don't really celebrate it, because of my stomachache aaah.. You know what you felt when you got your first day of menstruation then aah...it's hurt :( I just went out for a while, then looked for some fireworks above the sky hehe Nothing special right...

Accidentally, today, my cousin for such afar place over there comes to my sweet home. He visited us, in the way of new year celebration. He came from Palembang, South Sumatra. Just thought, it'll be a good news for my little brother, it means he'll get a new friend to play around together without shall bother me :)

Well, it's not educative yet, so I want to bring you the latest news yuhuuuuu...

Maybe, you didn't really know, what is the exact definition of Boredom, then I'll tell you what it is exactly :)

Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French word for boredom, ennui, is sometimes heard in English, too.

Boredom is a condition characterized by perception of one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking in stimulation. This can result from leisure and a lack of aesthetic interests. Labor, however, and even art may be alienated and passive, or immersed in tedium. There is an inherent anxiety in boredom; people will expend considerable effort to prevent or remedy it, yet in many circumstances, it is accepted as suffering to be endured. Common passive ways to escape boredom are to sleep or to think creative thoughts (daydream). Typical active solutions consist in an intentional activity of some sort, often something new, as familiarity and repetition lead to the tedious.

Boredom also plays a role in existentialist thought. In contexts where one is confined, spatially or otherwise, boredom may be met with various religious activities, not because religion would want to associate itself with tedium, but rather, partly because boredom may be taken as the essential human condition, to which God, wisdom, or morality are the ultimate answers. Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialis

 philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer. Heidegger wrote about boredom in two texts available in English, in the 1929/30 semester lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and again in the essay What is Metaphysics? published in the same year. In the lecture, Heidegger included about 100 pages on boredom, probably the most extensive philosophical treatment ever of the subject. He focused on waiting at train stations in particular as a major context of boredom. In Kierkegaard's remark in Either/Or, that "patience cannot be depicted" visually, there is a sense that any immediate moment of life may be fundamentally tedious. Blaise Pascal in the Pensees discusses the human condition in saying "we seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces", and later states that "only an infinite and immutable object – that is, God himself – can fill this infinite abyss."

Without stimulus or focus, the individual is confronted with nothingness, the meaninglessness of existence, and experiences existential anxiety. Heidegger states this idea nicely: "Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole."  Arthur Schopenhauer used the existence of boredom in an attempt to prove the vanity of human existence, stating, "...for if life, in the desire for which our essence and existence consists, possessed in itself a positive value and real content, there would be no such thing as boredom: mere existence would fulfil and satisfy us."

Erich Fromm and other thinkers of critical theory speak of boredom as a common psychological response to industrial society, where people are required to engage in alienated labor. According to Fromm, boredom is "perhaps the most important source of aggression and destructiveness today." For Fromm, the search for thrills and novelty that characterizes consumer culture are not solutions to boredom, but mere distractions from boredom which, he argues, continues unconsciously. Above and beyond taste and character, the universal case of boredom consists in any instance of waiting, as Heidegger noted, such as in line, for someone else to arrive or finish a task, or while one is travelling somewhere. The automobile requires fast reflexes, making its operator busy and hence, perhaps for other reasons as well, making the ride more tedious despite being over sooner.

So, have you understand about boredom ?? Well, it's exactly means that boredom is a condition where you got some stimulations in your mind, then thought that everything's gonna be bored. And this word, first time introduced by Charles Dickens on his novel Bleak House :)

Wow, cool !! You get an insight, right ?? I think that's all, thanks for reading this, hope you enjoy and See Ya !

Regards,

Suci Choi