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Laziness: How To Truly Fight Boredom
Boredom is an annoyance.
It is not a negative thing, nor is it something painful or hurtful.
It just is not fun.
That’s okay.
Not everything has to be fun.
Life is not made to be exciting or enjoyable 24/7.
So if you are bored, just sit with it.
Resist the temptation to run away from that boredom and own it.
If you run away from boredom, your mind assumes that you want to do anything other than be bored.
You raise it from an annoyance to a problem to be solved, and that will lead you to look, not for something enjoyable, but for anything that isn’t this.
This is where the Entertainment industry has thrived.
Most Entertainment is not “enjoyable”, it simply isn’t boring.
TV shows rarely make us laugh anymore, movies are good, but few are worth remembering, and most vacations just end up being “nice”.
And that is not the fault of the industry, but of the people that run away from boredom rather than trying to run towards joy.
This is why you waste your time with distractions and procrastination, as those are the easiest, and most-readily available, things…
