🚧Boredom Is Gold

Distractions and occupations

Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Boredom is the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest

Though that’s not lack of interest, it’s suppressing the real interest with false ones, and distracting from your own path.

Wikipedia:

Boredom is an emotion characterized by uninterest in one’s surrounding, often caused by a lack of distractions or occupations".

When not satisfied, boredom intensifies. When bored, we usually try to get distracted or shut away and suppress all impulses. Both are not very healthy, to put it mildly.

Fast dopamines is the easiest and fastest way to distract an understimulated mind. In the nature fast dopamines are scarce. They act like immediate injections of energy to keep us going, but they are not supposed to kill boredom, only to postpone it by tricking the mind into the time-limited feeling of false satisfaction. What you need is short dopamines - picking up fruits, having sex, listening to music, playing games, fixing stuff, making art - basically, any kind of physical activity, is what turns boredom into tiredness and satisfaction. And this is a natural process. You need to get bored times to times to start doing something. This is a natural process.

At some point human beings realized that it’s possible to temporarly dumb down the feeling of boredom with fast dopamines. Sugar, substances, and numerous types of passive entertainment. They are sometimes needed, indeed. The humananity have built whole industries around them. They make products that provide fast relief from boredom. The amounts and the accessibility of those artificial remedies is unnatural.

So when feeling bored, we eat candies, smoke weed, or watch videos, getting fast dopamines, but it doesn’t take the boredom away. It just pospones it.

Unhealthy stimulations are addictive, lead to overstimulation, which leads to boredom. In this light, boredom is not a bad feeling! It’s a chance to break the loop of distraction and addiction and get yourself further towards what your true self wants.

Boredom feels unpleasant for a reason - it’s supposed to induce actions. It’s a natural, inevitable, and helathy feeling and there’s nothing bad about it. Action is all what’s needed.

Getting in friends with the boredom

1. Quit or limit uninvited distractions.
2. Quit or limit sweet, salty, and strong flavoured foods and beverages, including coffee.
3. Quit or limit alcohol, weed, nicotine.
4. Quit or limit social media, TV, gambling, porn.

Adding friction is helpful to make fast accessible dopamines less accessible. Turn off all phone notifications, downgrade the data plan, keep the candies in the garage, drink only at the bar that is at least 10km away, dedicate a special hour entirely for doomscrolling, etc.

An unrested mind reaches into a dusty sack of unfinished business and pulls out the nearest item. Then he asks Mr. Boredom to let that guy downstairs know.

So next time you find yourself picking up the phone or unwrapping a candy take a pause and count to ten first. Embrace the feeling of boredom, accept it, and realize that it’s here telling you: “HELLO, IT’S ME – MISTER BOREDOM! IT’S YOUR ANOTHER PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO GET BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK. EVERYTHING IS READY AT YOUR SERVICE, YOUR ACTION IS REQUIRED (PLESE DON’T ASK ME WHAT THAT IS – I’M JUST AN MESSENGER). YOU MUST PROCEED WITH ACTION RIGHT NOW OR SOME TIME LATER. YOU CAN TONE DONW THIS SCREEMING ALARM BY CONSUMING SOME FAST DOPAMINES BUT IT’LL RETURN SOON WITH EVEN MORE INTENSITY.”

Mr. Boredome raises his voice indefinetely as the action is keep posponed, more and more over.

It welcomes you to take that fucking action that will lead to a feeling of happiness, calmness, satisfaction, a pleasant fatigue. It will be very different and more pleasant from what you feel from wolfing down a bag of crisps.

Accept the fact that the you’re obliged to come up with the action and take it.

For a quick check ask yourself: “Will this action take a significant amount of time and effort? Am I not tricking myself for a fast action pill?”?

If the answer is negative, you’re good to go.

Boredom and procrastination

Boredom is a state, a signal to take the action. Procrastination is a process of evasion from what truly needs to be done.

It’s a checkpoint

The signal is a reminder of past checkpoint when you started hitting the snooze button.

Tha algorythm of processing it:

1. Grasp the feeling of boredom
2. Do nothing and sway away from distractions until the urge for some action arises.
3. Ask youself: “Is that something that I wanted or needed to do for quite some time?”. If positive - proceed with the action, otherwise return to the previous step.

There’s no other way to break the loop¹ other than realizing the action and taking it. Although, the chosen action may be later revaled as an another distraction. You need to keep trying over and over again. You will understand that the right actions were taken only by feeling boredom less often.

Invocating boredom

Later you’ll realize the power of cooperation with boredom. But the trick is the more you use it, the less bored you’ll feel in the future. This is the entrance to the next level – learning how to become bored with an intent. There are only two options, and they sound simpler than what they actually imply:

1. Doing exactly nothing (breathing is allowed)
2. Doing meaningless and uninteresting things.

Both are the forms (sorts? ways? parts? varieties?) of meditation but, you know – the First Rule of the Meditation Club.

At some point you may find yourself waiting for the elevator, staring at the wall, or laying flat on the floor, doing nothing, thinking about nothing, and caring about nothing, with a clear and a still mind, questioning yourself: “If boredom is real at all?”.

Conclusion

Boredom is your ally, it’s an opportunity, and you better not missing the chance to act. It’s a way to become happier, healtiher, and to achieve amazing things. Don’t trade your golden boredom for the cheap junk.

I started writing drafts of this publication in March 2024 and I finished it by practicing what I described here.

Published: 2026-09-19