Boredom and painkillers

When boredom sets in, your senses go numb. you fail miserably in a lot of things for simply your mind is elsewhere.

Boredom is similar with painkillers. They don't heal the wound, but rather block our neurons' ending so that they can't send signal of pain to the brain. So, we do not feel the razor sharp scrapping our nerves unlike when we are in pain. In the same manner, boredom inflicts us. When its pangs has totally subdued us; we become insensitive to our surroundings, the presence of others and their feelings, especially at work.

What needs to be done? Simply break-out of it! Easier said, than done huh.

Steve Winn insightfully wrote:

We're terrified of boredom and simultaneously sunk up to our knees in it, a post-"Seinfeld" generation running as hard and frantically as we can to avoid a condition we increasingly regard as inevitable. "I heard you could die of boredom," goes a mordant line in a Neena Beeber play, "but I guess not." "Not so fast. As more and more people seem to recognize, the universal experience of being bored -- unengaged, detached, afloat in some private torpor -- may be far more precious, fruitful and even profound than a surface apprehension might suggest. As ordinary as gray skies and equally pervasive, boredom deserves its own sun-splashed attention and celebration. "

He goes on to argue that boredom is in fact an ally. We don't have to avoid it because it has its benefits. While the immediate solution I proffer is breaking-out of it, boredom can be utilized to harness your most creative side. Experience tells us that many great ideas produced through creative thinking were bred out of boredom. I remember Isaac Newton was not actually in deep thought when he mused about the law of gravity. He simply saw an apple fell on the ground and began formulating the universal law of gravity.

So, when boredom hits you again, do not allow it to take the effect of a painkiller, harness it and try doing other things.

As for boredom....I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. -John lay Chapman