My manager at work was very recently confronted with this complaint. He replied "Only boring people get bored".
I've also heard this lament quite a lot over the past year or so.
We have a sizeable part of the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips (Google, Wiki, Kindle/Amazon, etc.).
Furthermore, we have (even during lockdown) by far the greatest number and widest range of sources of entertainment and distraction that there have ever been in human history (e.g. books, TV/films, music, games, Internet, online shopping, online learning, numerous ways of communicating with familiar or new people, etc.). Not to mention the "inner resources" (creativity, imagination, meditation, etc.) we have.
Personally, I find it strange that anyone can be "bored".
My manager at work was very recently confronted with this complaint. He replied "Only boring people get bored".
I've also heard this lament quite a lot over the past year or so.
We have a sizeable part of the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips (Google, Wiki, Kindle/Amazon, etc.).
Furthermore, we have (even during lockdown) by far the greatest number and widest range of sources of entertainment and distraction that there have ever been in human history (e.g. books, TV/films, music, games, Internet, online shopping, online learning, numerous ways of communicating with familiar or new people, etc.). Not to mention the "inner resources" (creativity, imagination, meditation, etc.) we have.
Personally, I find it strange that anyone can be "bored".
I've been less bored and more frustrated. I have to go into work every day as my building needs to be open. I have maybe a handful of people come through my reception each day. They all complain that they hate being stuck at home.
On the other hand, I risk the train journey twice a day to sit in front of a computer screen all day. There is only so much of it that I can handle. Particularly as I've been sitting so long it's now causing me substantial back pain. My dodgy feet are also even more dodgy as they simply aren't getting the regular exercise that they used to when we were busy and the muscles are getting weaker. I struggle to remind myself to get up regularly which doesn't help. If I was at home, I could be doing hobbies, exercise, I could be getting up regularly to make fresh meals etc. I wouldn't be spending so much time in front of a computer screen.
I'm greatful that I still have a job. I don't exactly have a wide range of skills to see me easily fall into something else. But it's getting difficult to keep going. I have major issues with those people who blatantly disregard the guidelines. The government are useless, but it's these numpties who have made it dangerous for those of us who have to get to and from work everyday. My team covers three buildings and while we've thus far been ok, no thanks to our managers, there have now been cases in all of our buildings. Sorry, rant over...
