Well, BOREDOM Definitely Isn't the Problem!

I would have to say that I feel pretty firm and confident in the idea that I am never bored. I'm not sure I've ever been bored.

At least not that I am aware of...

Could be I was sometimes bored during economics class while I was at boarding school... but even that is open to debate.

Boredom seems to be an affliction a lot of people have to contend with. Across the years, it seems like I have heard so many people spin up some variation of the response "Oh, I'd get terribly bored with that!"

Seems to be that the whole boredom issue is strongly connected to someone's need to be stimulated or entertained almost constantly.

I often think my strange and largely solitary childhood — which included a very high degree of self-reliance — is responsible for the fact that I almost never experience boredom.

I nearly always had to entertain myself — and later fend for myself — so I developed lots of internal "games" to keep myself entertained (inside my head) when there really wasn't much of anything to do.

Besides, I was born with a very active imagination... and was always able to turn a few pebbles in the driveway into fortresses and buildings, and fallen leaves into sails on tiny sailboats made from twigs. Not that I was a poor street urchin, mind you!

Of course, that imagination turned to writing, shortly before I reached by teen years. And ever since then, as long as I have had access to a notebook and a pen, I have never been bored!

And if I wasn't writing, I was doodling tiny patterns on scraps of paper... the forerunner to what later became my art.

Many moons ago, I had a long conversation with a therapist friend about this. Once she had fully ascertained that I wasn't just lying to myself, she pointed out that my being an introvert definitely had something to do with it.

More interesting, though, was the possibility that I simply have a very low need for dopamine stimulation. Or it doesn't affect me with the same addictive intensity it does for a lot of other people... and so, I don't go looking for triggers to stimulate a dopamine release.

Might be why stuff like Facebook, Instagram or Tiktok never really sucked me in.

So, for the most part, I can be pretty content just sitting and observing the world and "thinking about things," an ability I'm sure my mother was quite grateful for as she would leave me in the car for upwards of an hour when I was little, and she was either at the salon, or dress shopping. Yes, it sounds very stereotypical 1970s... kids being ignored!

Later in life I have grown very grateful for the ability to not grow bored... as it has also helped me stick with things other people often quit.

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