why do people get bored

[sonicpunk32]

i have always been amazed that people would get bored. restless, it's like as if they are dying, and need something to entertain their minds or else they die. how come i dont get bored? i can be talking to a person, and unless they receive constant talking, they suddenly get "bored" and move to something else, i just dont understand this? or maybe something is wrong with me?

i just watch my girlfriend leave with desperation and her reason was "it's not that i have to, i'm just exorbantly bored." heh.. i lose the opportunity to spend time with my girlfriend cause she's bored... i just dont understand.

[Rockchick26]

Yeah i don't understand this either! I don't have enough time in my day to get done what i want to get done,i dont know how people just dont HAVE anything to do! I have this friend that has 4 jobs because she can't handle sitting around doing nothing! And whenever we go out,she HAS to keep herself busy up to the time when i'm ready because she gets bored waiting for me! I don't get it either. I would say its something in our water or food but then we'd all be this way LOL Some type of adult ADD,apparently. I also know a guy who gets "antsy" (in his own words) whenever he's sitting around at home,like he needs to go out and do something. Where me,i have about 10 things i would like to do,and i usually only have time for 3 or 4 of them. I could be unemployed and still not do everything i want. We need some bored people to come on here and explain themselves LOL Don't bored people have any hobbies or interests? That has to be the problem.

[sonicpunk32]

my thoughts EXACTLY, Rockchick26. as much as i dont like to admit it, my mind is slow, and i'm hyper sensitive to my environment and to any kind of thought emanating from anyone's brain. so i'm pretty much either overloaded with my own thoughts, or overloaded with my environment, always striving to get some TIME just to do the things i want to do, or talk to the people i want to talk to.

lol, but i guess with others, like my girlfriend, they have things to do, but finish them so fast. their psyches arent sensitive, i guess. they're not stimulated with energy from within, so they have to constantly seek it outside of themselves. in fact, yeah.. i think that's it... me and you Rockchick26, we dont get bored because we have our own source of energy that keeps our mind at peace from within. those who get bored dont have this internal energy to comfort their minds, so they seek it outside of themselves. i think this is the difference between introversion and extroversion? i'm not sure, just my only theory.

[sonicpunk32]

i wonder how i can get along with her, cause i dont get bored, and she does. this could be a problem.

[sheffy4]

I admit that I feel "bored" sometimes. I think it happens when I am doing things without really being engaged in them, so I feel like I'm not really doing anything. Also, sometimes if I say I'm bored, it's not that I don't have anything to do, but that none of the things I could do sound appealing at the time.
Once again, I think it's just a case of being detached and unengaged.

[sonicpunk32]

Originally Posted by sheffy4

Also, sometimes if I say I'm bored, it's not that I don't have anything to do, but that none of the things I could do sound appealing at the time.

there have been times when i've wanted to say that i'm bored just cause i didnt have interesting things to say or do that i'd think people might enjoy. of course they were interesting to me, i just didnt know if they'd be interesting to them.

[Angela]

Is it that she's bored with what she's doing, or bored in a conversation?

[sonicpunk32]

i dont know, i havent gotten a chance to ask. this was today.