I dunno...I just don't get real excited about anything any more. I may be slightly depressed....but it's not the same feeling as when I am in a depression (yea, I have problems with that a couple times a year....and well, this whole past year...lol)
But seriously....it's like I'm just kind of disconnected. I know there are things I want to do with my life, things I want to see and experiance....I know I have only experienced the tip of the ice burg with only 29 years under my belt.... But really, I am just so freaken board with life right now it is sickening..... And no, I'm not suicidal or anything like that...been down that road, and won't be back down it again.

But it is just a strange feeling....just very discontent....very board....know my life will be very full....but right now....ugh....just feels like I am floating in the middle of the ocean in a little dingy and no sight of land....

Sucks....

I am right there with you love..

Life is BORING!! Even at the wonderful age of "21"

Minus the DRAAAAAAMA~!

Originally posted by Princess
I am right there with you love..

Life is BORING!! Even at the wonderful age of "21"

Minus the DRAAAAAAMA~!

basically what she said... minus the love part :D


yeah I hear ya.. life is pretty borring, but in the last week or two I have been very busy.. anyways, just ask yourself what you want to do.. that you haven't done? or what makes your life boring? I know sometimes I can't quite figure that one out.. like I am missing something..

That's pretty weird... I guess I never stop and think about it. I'm really happy. Sounds horrible and corny... I really enjoy being alive, so I guess I don't have time to be bored.

I get down from time to time, more so recently with the pending lay offs... but I have a really great family, so that always helps cheer me up and not give into the gloom and doom.

Or maybe it was all the drugs I took when I was young... :D

It is rare for me to go a few days and not stop and think why the **** am I doing any of this?

Life is boring...and oftentimes pointless...

I am still trying to find out why...

We are here to make babies, nothing more. We take it upon ourselves to do more, we are animals ... just smart ones.

.... Sounds like some of you guys may suffer from seasonal depression.


Cheers :)

Oh, I know I do....and actually it goes on and off threw out the year....so one season is not the problem....lol.

I know how ya feel Jester. I feel like I haven't accomplished anything and I am just kinda spinning my wheels. Life is just boring.

Since most of us would agree Life is a bore..any solutions..?

Uhhhh . . . go out and find something to do?

Sit down and say "what do I REALLY want?" Figure it out, and go headlong into a charge after it.

As for me . . . I'm happy as a lark. I have a purpose, motivation, and love. What else is there?

Originally posted by D Durden

As for me . . . I'm happy as a lark. I have a purpose, motivation, and love. What else is there? [/B]

show off.....lol

Hey, it was a crappy-ass ride here to enlightenment . . . trust me!

Originally posted by D Durden
Uhhhh . . . go out and find something to do?

Sit down and say "what do I REALLY want?" Figure it out, and go headlong into a charge after it.


That's the hard part though. I don't necessarily think life is boring, but I definitely am beginning to wonder what purpose my life has to it right now. I work a crappy job and don't make enough money to live above the poverty line. I feel like I don't have the time or energy anymore to pursue my passions...and the scary part is that I'm starting to wonder what it really is that I'm passionate about. I guess the problem is that I don't know what I want - and I don't know how to figure that out. Although, when I look around me, most people in their 20's are in the same place...so at least I know I'm not alone in my confusion. That's sort of comforting.

Things have really picked up for me in the last ~3 months. Before that the banality was killing me. All I ever did was sit around and argue on the internet.

Originally posted by Allegra


That's the hard part though. I don't necessarily think life is boring, but I definitely am beginning to wonder what purpose my life has to it right now. I work a crappy job and don't make enough money to live above the poverty line. I feel like I don't have the time or energy anymore to pursue my passions...and the scary part is that I'm starting to wonder what it really is that I'm passionate about. I guess the problem is that I don't know what I want - and I don't know how to figure that out. Although, when I look around me, most people in their 20's are in the same place...so at least I know I'm not alone in my confusion. That's sort of comforting.
That's it!! Its our PARENTS fault!!!!;)

Originally posted by jwreck

That's it!! Its our PARENTS fault!!!!;)

Ummm...
Well, I wasn't going there originally, but if we need to blame someone for all this apathy, I guess our parents are good candidates! ;)

Assuming you are not physically incapacitated in some way, what athletics do you folks who are bored get involved in? To name a few, I windsurf, kayak, sail on old sailboats, hike, rollerblade, swim, play ice hockey, snow ski, snowboard (used to bicycle but too many soccer mom driving SUV's now), and workout.

Some artistic endevours include oil painting, acrylic painting and studying and practicing blues electric guitar.

Between constantly trying to improve performance in these pursuits and intellectual endevours such as studying world facts who has time to be bored?

I just took out 7 minutes and did this song. It took longer to convert it to mp3 and upload than to record (15 meg). It is really just a blues jam. I set the rhythm machine (drums and bass) to do a 1-4-5 loop (E-A-B) and play guitar over it. It is never boring because nothing is planned out tremendously so it is always different. To jam is to play anything as long as you are generally in the constraints of the chord progression and you avoid incorrect notes.

http://deecken.com/jim/semiboring.mp3

Originally posted by Snouter
I just took out 7 minutes and did this song. It took longer to convert it to mp3 and upload than to record (15 meg). It is really just a blues jam. I set the rhythm machine (drums and bass) to do a 1-4-5 loop (E-A-B) and play guitar over it. It is never boring because nothing is planned out tremendously so it is always different. To jam is to play anything as long as you are generally in the constraints of the chord progression and you avoid incorrect notes.

http://deecken.com/jim/semiboring.mp3

I used to play jazz piano in high school and loved jamming. It's complicated, but can be so freeing and refreshing - I loved it. I still play my keyboard, but I don't improvise anymore. Unfortunately, I got out of practice, and that's something you really need to keep up on. HOw long have you been playing?

I used to feel the same way (empty) so now when i start feeling like that I go out and do something subversive or read a book.

For anyone else whose bored with life I suggest you do something dangerous. Not dangerous in a physical way necessarily but dangerous in terms of violating taboos, ordinances, your expectations, or those of society. For example something as simple as:

Sleep outside

Walk through a "Bad" part of town.

Ride your bike next time instead of driving the car.

Get a dozen roses and hand them out to little old ladies from some street corner.

Write a short story or a poem.

Volunteer to take the dogs at the local pound for a walk.

Pretend you are a secret agent and post cryptic messages on telephone poles for people to wonder at.

Ask a bum or an old person how they are doing.

Fly a kite.

Make out in public.

Build a campfire.

Think of something you dont understand then read a book about it.

See if theres anything usefull or entertaining in the dumpster behind Best Buy or Blockbuster.

Do a back flip off the high dive.

Tell somebody how much you appreciate them.

or you could always travel across the globe, hiking or skateboarding or hoping trains or driving trucks for cross country delivery services or working as a saxophonist on a cruise ship, and everywhere you go you can find people looking for holes in the fabric of this so called reality. Together with these folks
you could mastermind unexpected street festivals, occupations, play music that blows the roof off theworld, seize chances to jump UP AND SHOUT OUT TRUTHS NO ONE DARES TO EXPRESS, go charging off into wild and uncharted adventutres.

Now reach down and turn off the computer, cause if theres one thing ive found with this its that sitting in front of a computer contributes a helluva lot to boredom and anxiety.

There is a difference between Life and Survival.

"Whatever medical science may profess, there is a difference between Life and survival. There is more to being alive than just having a heartbeat and brain activity. Being alive, really alive, is something much subtler and more magnificent. Their instruments measure blood pressure and temperature, but overlook joy, passion, love, all the things that make life really matter. To make our lives matter again, to really get the most out of them, we will have to redefine life itself. We have to dispense with their merely clinical definitions, in favor of ones which have more to do with what we actually feel.

As it stands, how much living do we have in our lives? How many mornings do you wake up feeling truly free, thrilled to be alive, breathlessly anticipating the experiences of a new day? How many nights do you fall asleep feeling fulfilled, going over the events of the past day with satisfaction? Most of us feel as though everything has already been decided without us, as if living is not a creative activity but rather something that happens to us. That's not being alive, that's just surviving: being undead. We have undertakers, but their services are not usually required; we have morgues, but we spend most of our time in office cubicles and video arcades, in shopping malls, in front of televisions. Of course suburban housewives and petty executives are terrified of risk and change; they can't imagine that there is anything more valuable than physical safety. Their hearts may be beating, but they no longer believe in their dreams, let alone chase after them.

But this is how the revolution begins: a few of us start chasing our dreams, breaking our old patterns, embracing what we love (and in the process discovering what we hate), daydreaming, questioning, acting outside the boundaries of routine and regularity. Others see us doing this, see people daring to be more creative and more adventurous, more generous and more ambitious than they had imagined possible, and join us one by one. Once enough people embrace this new way of living, a point of critical mass is finally reached, and society itself begins to change. From that moment, the world will start to undergo a transformation: from the frightening, alien place that it is, into a place ripe with possibility, where our lives are in our own hands and any dream can come true.

So do what you want with your life, whatever it is! But to be sure you do get what you want, think carefully about what it really is, first, and how to go about getting it. Analyze the world around you, so you'll know which people and forces are working against your desires, and which ones are on your side... and how you can work together with us. We're out here, living life to the fullest, waiting for you-hopping trains across the United States, organizing political protests in French public schools, writing beautiful letters at sunrise in Bangkok. We just finished making love in the corporate washroom a minute before you walked in on your half hour lunchbreak. And Life is waiting for you with us, on the peaks of unclimbed mountains, in the smoke of campfires and burning buildings, in the arms of lovers who will turn your world upside down. Come join us! "

Cody has some good ideas there.

Originally posted by Allegra
How long have you been playing? [/B]

I have messed around with guitar and other musical instruments for years, but focused on the guitar for over 7 years. I finally got a high quality guitar a few years ago and that makes a big difference. It is a G&L S-500 through a Johnson J-Station into a mixer with a Boss Jamstation into the Cakewalk PC software. I sold the blue pedal board in the pic.

http://snoutdogger.stangnet.com/images/guitar2.jpg

Okay the Stangnet link doesn't work, but here is the guitar in a diffferent color combo and mine has a fixed bridge, not the vibrato arm.

http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/S500/S500.gif

I usually have these feelings when there is too much insulin in my system.

Durden, Cody and a couple of others are right, it's simply a matter of finding SOMETHING that you can really get into, even if it's just a hobby rather than a life's goal. On top of that, ake the time to look around and appreciate the good parts of your life too.

My kenpo training keeps me from suffering from boredom with life, mainly because I've gotten so much out of it beyond self defense. As for the other part, my life's been a world class mess most of my life, but the few family and friends I've got mean alot to me.

I used to kinda go in spurts where Id be really into say a game, or a topic, or band, or author, or working out for a period of time then Id find somthing else to focus on. It works but Ive found approaching life as a whole with an endless variety of diversions and possibilities works even better for me.

Good advice again, Cody... What we suggested earlier can serve as a springboard to get one to that point however:cool: