Boring

ThailandTom

I have noticed that I have gradually over a perid of time started to lose interest in many things and find them to be boring. This is not because I am a manic depressed individual by the way lol. Examples, I have lost interest in keeping up with technology and wanting a decent phone, the newst computer or gadget, it seems pointless to me. TV, that bores me and I do not have one now anyway, I don't listen to music anymore because I have lost interst in that, social networking has grinded to a halt because I find it tedius and to be somewhat of place full of egotistic people, my internet usage in general has started to become more narrow and I struggle to read as well these days, not because I cannot read but because I find it yes you guessed it, boring.

Lady_Alison

Okay, I get the media boredom...or lack of interest...personally, my dvd player just broke and I feel liberated that I don't have to go rent movies...I have half a mind to throw out the tv.

What do you find of interest?

ThailandTom

I tend to my plants, take a certain degree of pride in keeping a clean house. I play poker but that also comes into part of my income, sometimes photography but that has started to fade as well with my interests. Learning thai, spending time with my girlfriend and yoga

Zero

Its natural to explore new things and have varied and changing interests...

Otherwise I'd still be picking my nose and sh1tting in a nappy! wait hold on - I still do one of those!!

Lady_Alison

@zero...nappy? , oh diaper!

These uk, boys! Lol...yeah...maybe you could look into new interests..seems like you're just growing.

ThailandTom

@Alison 0_o what you talkin bowt fool!? UK boys, I am a man for a start. What interests do I need that I do not already have? Life is one of them btw

Lady_Alison

I'm 28 and féel like I've lived a thousand years so I call everyone darling, child, honey, or little one...just words of endearment. Lol...how about "guys ".. no, no, no....

MALES!

Btw...you can have and grow in hobbies. . .if you want too...

Zero

I think she meant the nappy / diaper thing... yep - over here what is commonly known as a diaper is a nappy... we dont use diaper at all...

Sounds like you do a lot already... are you content with your activities?

ThailandTom

very much so. not much to do, much reward, I give when I can when it comes to compssion in the community and I just live a very simple life. My fone, seriously it is a pay as you go fone but I have not ued it in so long even if I try to top up the number is void haha...

Lady_Alison

Yeah@zero...I meant the uk word...not that uk boys wear diapers!

Weird fettish. @zero...this new funny darkside of yours is refreshing!

weighted

It sounds like you're content, which is the only thing that matters.

ThailandTom

I assume if I had a smart fone it would annoy me getting to know it, plus the cost, plus the constast contact with the object etc. People plan their lives in their lil smart fones, I plan mine nowhere, it comes as it comes

ImmersedOne

When an interest is not present now, do not assume it will never come back. When something has not interested you in the past, do not assume it may not interest you in the future, or now. Interests come and go, as do their fulfillments. Ride the wave of of interests/desires, knowing that you need none of them, for you can have all of them, when the time is right.

patbb

"boring" is one of the best opportunity we can have.
if we know what to do with it.

our mind is occupy with this and that, always. Thoughts about this thing or that thing, this situation or that situation.

to sit with our "bored" feeling/state of mind, and just welcome this feeling can allow for great breakthrough with our meditation.

to be bored and observe that feeling, investigate it, is essential in some ways for the spiritual path in my opinion.


So if your mind is inclined toward meditation and spirituality, I would recommend you to fight the urge of trying to find objects of interest and activities for now, and just sit with the feeling. Take a vow to not do anything at all until you come to peace with that feeling.

weighted

I agree with @patbb, and let's face it: even some of our meditation sittings can be plain boring. But we continue on with them.

See a moment of boredom as an opportunity to get comfortable with feeling bored. Maybe it will then transform itself into a springboard for a mindfulness exercise or else inspire you to do something you've never done before.

ThailandTom

Maybe I have labelled the thread wrongly, I am not displeased with how things are or down because I find such things boring or pointless, maybe I should have named the thread 'uniteretsted' or something. I am very rarely bored, I can't tell you the last time I was bored. Actually yes I can, it was when I wa swaiting to get my visa stamp.

ImmersedOne yes you are right, the future is something totally unpredictable, as time as has gone on and my buddhist practice has grown, my interest in these things has dicreased and dicreased and dicreased. It MAY go back to me having the urge to become ordained which has been on my mind for quite some time.

DaltheJigsaw

We all get bored. It is a human characteristic. It is like depression, for some it is short, for others it's long and for some it's hardly real. Being bored only means you have to slow down and pay more attention. Basically...start being more MINDFUL!!:)

ThailandTom

okay, I tried to change the name of the thread to something apart from 'boring' as when I made it I chose an inncorect term. I am not bored, uniterested would be more satifsactory. This is not a problem, I do not have a problem with all of these things being uninteresting to me. I understand bordom, I escaped that long ago and can sit in a room for long periods of time by myself with nothing to do and not be bored.

Lady_Alison

Aloof like my cat? I rattle the bag of meow mix andshe doesn't come...I wonder if she is often bored...no, just indifferent.

Neutral and self sufficient.

Bekenze

Well, it upsets me that you are never on Facebook anymore, as I never get to talk to you, but that conversation is for another time and place.

ThailandTom

If you want just private message me on facebook and it will email me saying so, then I will reply that way if you want, no problemo. MEOW MIX!

DaltheJigsaw

Well, it upsets me that you are never on Facebook anymore, as I never get to talk to you, but that conversation is for another time and place.

Add me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leonidbasin

Zero

Sounds like you have a healthy balance going on TT...