Blogpost 7: Varieties of boredom

Boredom is very challenging for all of us. We need to think of the things that can stimulate our brains. As we all know boredom is just like not contented of it's surroundings.


I found out the article entitled I Am bored , therefore I eat by Sherry Pagoto. PH.D in Shrink she stated that
"There are two types of boredom" as I read this article I knew that there are two kinds of boredom first is the garden of variety and it also known as "blahs" this kind of boredom is acute because of the absence of enjoyment and pleasure but this is the good thing about this kind of boredom because  it is only temporary for the people who experiencing and it can easily solve, when you experience this kind of boredom, you can easily notice when you're bored like staring at the T.V or just starring at the windows and then a friend of yours calls you up and invites you to drive to his/her house to hang out, this then makes your boredom disappear and turns your boredom to excitement. The second kind of boredom is called "anhedonia" it happens in the brain it's a neurobiologically. Anhedonia loses your brain's' capability to feel happiness it seems like you don't enjoy the things you enjoy before for example everyone of us likes to go to a theme park and someone will invite you to go and then you don't enjoy the surrounding of the theme park that is anhedonia. This kind of boredom is very difficult to cure. When people feel this they tend to do some pleasure seeking actions like using of drugs, excessive smoking, over eating and having a sexual activity.              

As they say if you love someone you need to set him/her set free, do you believe in that? for us human it can imply but if we compare it to animals what will be the result? speaking of animals, do you have pets? do you love them? If you love them, why will you choose to leave them inside the cage?

In the article entitled Captive animals show signs of boredom, study finds wrote by Rebeccaa Meagher and Georgia Mason she stated that "Being able to study boredom in non-human animals is an important step in our efforts to understand it's causes and effects and find ways to alleviate boredom-related problems across species." I didn't expect that even animals experiencing boredom while inside their cage, animals feel that they are bored especially when they'are in cage. People try to build a huge cage wherein you can find water, food, objects that they can play but these animals live in the small cages tend to be bored and eager to energize and that is consistent boredom and when you about to approach that animal it tends frighten and three more times of investigate in their environments, when they are in their usual environment mostly they do lying down and to idle. Animals that are also prone in boredom is primates and even parrots.  I think both animals and humans are experiencing that, animals are like humans seeking attention, wanting to energize or finding a solution for not to be bored. 

As I was doing this research i noticed that everyone of us have the rights to be bored and for me it's not that bad because we are only showing how we feel in that particular circumstance. But we need to do right things to relieve our boredom.  

Blogpost 6: It's a Sign of Poor Health

"Boredom is the deadliest poison." by William F. Buckley Jr.

What do you think, why is there a poor health? In every country, men and women are very conscious about health, we want to maintain our bodies to become healthy. Health is the most important for many of us. Because this health can lead us to the future. Imagine if you get sick, you can't do easily the things you wanna do. As we all know poor health is the effect of not eating right amount of food, not getting a enough sleep, but were thinking wrong. 

According to the article that I read entitled Why being bored is bad for your health by Daily Mail reporter, stated that "Being bored could be bad for your health..." the people that are usually get bored is the one who is prone to die earlier. In order to relieve that boredom some people tend to do harmful things to their bodies, like drinking alcohol, taking drugs and having a psychological problems. We all know that excessive drinking alcohol or taking drugs can abuse one's health and can lead to have a psychological problem, because of that psychological problem that is happening to your brain, you can now easily think of the things that are not usual or not normal for the human. They're trying not to get bored that's why they do such things. 

In the article The surprising benefits of being  by Maggie Puniewska, Greatist he states that "A common result of boredom is mindless snacking or eating..." when we are bored we tend to eat too much, when we are bored our brain enjoys eating, chewing or even preparing our food in that way our minds temporarily forget that we are bored. But eating too much can lead us to become fat or obese. When we are always get bored we tend to eat and eat and get fat it's like a cycle and you are keep on complaining that you are getting too much weight. 

Thinking of the ways how to overcome boredom is hard especially you are experiencing it all the time. Life is very challenging we need to strive hard especially in doing a productive activity for us to live longer and survive in this planet. Don't waste time, Invest on something that all of us can benefit.   

  

Blogpost 5: Boredom Behind Movies

When we are about to start the movie, we are so excited. Getting all the things needed for you not to be disturb while you're watching. Your most awaited movie. But why we, movie watchers are so excited to watch movies without knowing the behind the scene. Maybe it's just because of the trailer or the one who leads the movie is their favorite actor or actress or maybe it is just a cast of the movie. I was just wondering they are making a movie in a long period of time and I'm thinking they're get even bored? 

As what I read form this article entitled Bruce Willis getting bored with starring in Big action Movies Again made by Ethan Anderton. The article states "Willis lamented,"When you have seen a few fireballs, it's not exciting any more. I know part of my audience enjoys the explosions, but to be honest, I'm a bit bored of it now." According to my research Bruce Willis is a 58 year-old, German-born American actor, producer, and singer. I was just surprise because even the actors and actresses are getting bored in their work. I thought that some of actors and actresses are energized or motivate because they chose that field, which is acting. Any one of us will get thrilled specially when the theme of the movie is action wherein there are fire explosion. And the fun part was making the action movie. But why Bruce Willis got bored in doing that? I got his point, he always plays the same role in action films, and it's hard to always get interested in it. If Bruce Willis getting bored in doing action films maybe he try other roles. 

We all know that other movies are totally boring. In spite of always failed in doing movies. Directors are always working hard to come up with a exciting films. But what would happen if they try all those possible fillers like naked woman, explosions, etc. in their movie, Movies are be still boring? 

As I happened to found this article entitled In Defense of Boredom and boring Movies by Landon Palmer. The author stated in his article that Boring cinema can instead be the most challenging and revelation of all. He said that most of the critiques of a film as "Boring" are based on the assumption of cinema as an entertainment medium. But is also value in cinematic boredom. I consider that in doing a movie is such a difficult task to a production specially to the director of the movie giving the best shots in order to build or create a decent movie, and people will accept it and not getting bored while watching. In line with that matter The Practice of boredom is in his article too. He stated that "Boredom as aesthetic practice has been something of a regular mode of operation for avant-garde cinema." But why the author stated that? As I think of that in a dull cinema, aesthetic is relating to a art or beauty it is just a normal circumstances because it is included in the state of art.

As I learned about these articles that I found on the net, I understand that even the people behind in each movies that we watch also get bored. We can't blame them, maybe because they are get used to it. And in the end of the day we are the one's who judges the good works of the directors of the movie, we are the one's who criticized weather it is good, interesting or simply it's boring.     

         

  

Blogpost 4: Boredom Flattenline Emotions

Emotions can express through non-verbal like crying, faster heartbeat, aggression, happiness, anger, interest, liking, sadness, embarrassment, shame, disgust and fear. Who among here doesn't feel any emotions ? No one! of course. Emotions have the important role in our lives. Because emotions is the tool for us to tell other people what we feel and based their judgement upon us. And it is how we create an automatic behavior as a survival mechanism.

It is scary hearing the sound of heart monitor and suddenly it's like jumping and it all boils down to the sounds of flat-line, specially if it's connected to your love one's. But if when your emotion gets flat. Suddenly your emotions will shut-down you'll be getting tired, bored and numb.

Since I was searching about boredom I happened to find this article Is your relationship boring? made by Andre Cross, relationship correspondent. According to the article "Birds used to chirp roses used to smell great and you used to look forward to surprising your lady with little gifts, but now things just aren't the same. Your relationship has evolved, and not for the better. But lets face it: People change and with that change there's bound to be a glitch in the bond." I think it is very challenging to maintain that sweetness especially when you are in a long-term relationship. Each other must give their best shot every time to retain the "sparks". These are just some of the reasons why do we get bored in our relationship, first You become Lazy, because you get used to it, it's like the daily routine of your life. In short your emotions to your relationship flattened. Your relationship starts to get monotonous. Second is You take his/ her for granted third is money has become an issue especially for married couples they tend to fight for the sake of money. forth is you don't kiss,  I think kiss is the simplest way to express your self to your love one's especially in the relationship.

Falling in love was totally exciting, we always want a perfect relationship, we are always thinking what would be the best thing to do, in order to have a long lasting relationship. Before ended up into a bored relationship. As I found this article Beating relationship Boredom made by TwoOfUs.org the article listed down 10 Boredom Buster in your relationships.

1. Good conversation In good relationship, conversation is the best way to relate yourself to your love ones. Anything under the sun! as long as you communicate. Good conversation understand each other's emotions, thoughts and concept.
2.  Vacation Getaway Take an adventurous vacation Getaway with your partner and gaining new memories.
 3.  Amateur Anthropology Like what I said take an adventurous getaway with your partner, exploring new things together.
4. Romance According in the site "keep you romance and your physical relationship in a peak condition. Don 't let your love life become of a victim of self-love."
5. A break from Your Routine Don't get in daily routine that can be predictable. Impromptu lunch or a candle light dinner is far from the usual things that you did like eating in front of the TV.  In that manner you both give a effort and both of you will appreciate those little things.
6. Recreation Doing extra ordinary things that you don't usually do like skiing, biking,bowling, etc. It is the same with numbers 2,3 and 5.
7.  Intellectual Stimulation Enjoying and learning things together. Like visiting a museum or watching a documentary. Learning new things or should I say getting new information and save to your brain can have a intellectual increase that will add up to your attractiveness or interest to your partner.
8. Community Service or Charity Doing good to others with your partners makes you feel good. Voluntarism is the one way to show kindness to others. Community Service can bring you closer as a couple.
9. Laughter As they say Laughter is the best medicine, thus look for a partner that has a lot of humor. In that way you complement to each other.
10. Personal Development To stay in love, give each other a quality time to investigate I mean for you to really know your partner. Don't just expect your partner to be a fascinating person-be a fascinating person.     

We all know that boredom is one of the major hindrance why relationship getting failed. I think if you truly love the person and you're exerting time to your special someone you don't get even bored. Falling in love with a better person in every second for your life is a very challenging for each one of us without losing it's "sparks" and without getting bored into it specially for the long term relationship.

Blogpost 3: Teens when they are Bored

Why are teenagers so easily bored? The teenagers dilemma is this. As a teenager, we want freedom to be independent, because we are thinking that we know what we are doing. But what we discovers is that freedom is one birthplace of boredom. Now that we have more choice as a teenager, what are we going to do with it?

As I happened to found this website entitled Military Schools & Alternatives to Military School with the article Bored teens are likely to drink, take Drugs was made Jill Gonzalez. I found this article Teen drug abuse in her article."Most teens don't start using drugs expecting to develop a substance abuse problems, and while most teens probably see their drug use as a casual way to have fun, there are negative effects that are a results of this use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs. The biggest consequences to casual drug use can be that it develops into a true addition. Very few addicts recognize when they have crossed the line from casual use to addiction." I'am  thinking that all of us minded into the many screens of social media, electronic entertainment and anything that can tell us that it's okay to do things that are not accepted. I think we are creating a society in which children and teenager like me have grown used to being electronically link, because of that social media trying to influence teenagers to do nasty things and bring into a real world what they learn in Internet. And eventually practicing it with real life challenges. To overcome boredom, some teenagers tend to imitate what they saw or hear.

Do you ever get bored with dating?  Is dating out of boredom? This questions still remains in my brain. Every time I see two people having a sweet or lets say romantic gestures. How they get attracted to each other?

As I was going through articles about boredom. This article caught my attention entitled Dating out of Boredom?  by Inayat Dhanda. The article states that " A large number of youngsters opt for dating simply because they have nothing better to do. Boredom leads to incompatible relationships: That is what many realize after breaking up." but why they have to date someone that they are not interest in? that is why they get bored during the date because they are not interested, feeling bored leads many young people in our generation chose dating rather than searching other things that can help to improve their character to be a better person, in that case relationships are treated like experience for enjoyment and not for real commitment.

Life is a choice. Get out, meet people, and be open to new people and new experiences with them. You'll meet someone better that will suits your behavior. Constant choice in our every moment of our lives, where we want to choose what we want to do with our time. We can make the most out of it, we only live once. But to be able to achieve that, don't let boredom eat you.

         

Blogpost 2: Children are our Future

We live in a society where children are easily get entertained in any electronic devices like T.V, Laptops, etc. can contribute in this problem. As we all know children’s have the most important role in this world. Because they are the ones who can change the world in the near future. But if they don’t know they are the ones who can change the nation, what will happen on our society and if they get tired of studying? They wanted to do is laying down on their bed.

When children says that they’re bored, parents, often jump in to try to solve the problem. Parent's rushing too quickly to help their children to overcome their boredom. 

Now a days children have more toys to ward off boredom than ever before. And these toys, with all their car toys, barbie dolls are more sophisticated that toys available to earlier generations.

As I found this article Boredom in Class? Try 'outrageous' Instruction  by: Stanley Pogrow. The article states that "We will not much progress in achieving educational equity until we develop better approaches for dealing with student boredom and resistance. But students access to on -demand entertainment has made it harder than ever for teachers to interest their classes -members of the youtube generation- in what they are being mandated to cover."

Although teachers are trying to create some interesting lessons, they must be aware that despite of their best ideas, some students may still perceive interesting lessons as boring. Both teachers and students must strive hard to be aware of boredom inside the classroom. According in the site even teachers have their skills in manipulating classrooms, showing content, and keeping the discipline of the students. The students are still bored! and even the teacher was tend to get bored in his own class, teachers are so disappointed because they are trying their best to give all knowledge to the students and yet the students are still bored. 

As I search articles in website I found this article entitled Boredom in school and it's effects on your child's health made by Jenifer Fox, Author of Your Child's Strengths, speaker, school expert. The article surprises me, I was not aware that boredom can affect the child's health.

The article talks about the negative side effects of boredom to children who are inattentive in class and having a threat of consequences that can trigger them to be stress. According to the article "Bored students feel stressed when they are called on to answer the question of the teacher. and they haven't been listening." The battle on boredom that we feel while inside the classroom they tend us to do things that can activate our minds and it encourages our creativity and develops our imaginations like in drawing, doodling, paper folding, etc. 

In the book Coping with Chronic Stress by Benjamin Gottlieb states that points to dozens of studies which demonstrates that under-activity in the brain may trigger a health threat by promoting atrophy of nerve cell in the hippocampus, a region of the brain that is important for spatial and verbal memory. I was just surprise when I read about young ones who complain boredom are trying to stay healthy.  
According to Dr. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University, when people experience too much stress the body releases a hormone called cortisol. When people experience prolonged stress, which can conceivably happen from the tension between the expectation to achieve and the reality that lack of stimulation is making it impossible to be attentive, their bodies may produce excess cortisol, causing it to cut back on its production of other hormones, such as testosterone. Without adequate levels of testosterone, it is impossible to maintain, let alone build, muscle. With this information, parents and teachers should take it responsibility to handle boredom specially with kids, they are not simply complaining, it signifies us that they do not feel challenged, and their brains are not activate in healthy ways. 

Even kids are getting bored,It is the way it is taught, but it is not the content or subject being taught. Many teachers are giving their best to taught children specially the young ones. Many kids are bored because maybe they don't like their teachers. I think it's the Parents and teachers responsibility  to help children develop the ability to use imagination and enjoy solitude. My advice to the children don't get bored. Try to listen, because in the future you would be able to use that knowledge. Children are everyone's future. 

Blogpost 1: Introduction of Boredom

"Boredom is Life's own gravity" - (Svendsen's Conclusion)

My name is Rhemma Olive C. Respicio. My friends calls me rhemm. I'm taking up business administration major in business management. Jolly, friendly and cheerful that's me. In doing such stuffs I give my best to reach my milestone!

This blog is all about Boredom. Exploring the roots, symptoms, and symbolism of boredom across history, psychologist and Philosophy to examine what it reveals bout us both as individuals and as a culture. Did you ever wonder why do people always get bored? not actually always, but are you already get board? of course! All of us got used to be bored in anything. Because of lacking of spirit, enthusiasm, or interest. This study aims to answer this question Why do people usually get bored? 

What is boredom? When it arose?  

Let's first define Boredom. What is boredom? It is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything to do with, and not interested in their environment.

Those people who always get bored are probably their mind is active and want to try something new. Initially boredom is like unexpected holiday you don't know how to do because you are so surprise. You've got to do is get bored it has a become a monotony of fatigue. It is like mental torture to your self.   

Since I was doing a research about Boredom, I happened to find a article. The website entitled, Center for the Study of Boredom, Interest and Entertainment with the article A call for Collaboration was made by Augustin de la Pena, PhD. a Consultant and writer. “The first occurrence of bored in the English Language occurred in a private letter as late as 1768, in which the Earl of Carlisle articulates his pity for his “Newmarket friends, who are bored by these Frenchmen.” Bore,” meaning “a thing that bores," First appeared in the English lexicon in 1778. The “bore” as a tiresome person emerged in 1812. The first citation of the noun boredom occurred in 1864, less than a century and a half ago.”  It's been a long time since the world has invented or discovered. The word boredom have been transformed into what can be considered to be typically "a great problem"

I still remember how bored I used to feel Years ago at the Math class. I thought that Math was the most boring subject ever. Few years later, I found myself extremely excited whenever I read about Math! It’s the same topic, but the feelings were totally different. Everything was the same except that boredom vanished!!So is Math really boring or is it interesting? Actually it’s neither boring nor interesting but when I used to study it at the class my subconscious mind found that it’s not important for me and so it made me feel bored in order to motivate me to leave the class!! It prevented me from feeling bored again while studying it. We can ask people how to change our behavior and eventually that changes will make up our minds having a good attitude towards others.

Boredom, why it afflicts us? Or why it affects us in our daily life. There are too many things to be done in 24 hours a day. It’s so stressful if we can’t accomplish it right away. But why we cannot accomplish it?

As I was going through articles regarding Boredom, a certain article caught my attention. The website entitled Is workplace boredom the new stress?  With the article is workplace boredom the new stress?  was made by Rose Hoare, CNN. The article state that boredom is an unlikely new frontier in workplace research. commonly associated with avoiding responsibility, taking absurdly long lunch breaks and playing internet games on the sly, new studies suggest it's something that affects high performing employees as well as those in menial jobs.- CNN. It blocks our motivation, that hinder us to do our best in our workplace. You may even be experiencing it at this very moment. And, according to my research new studies states that boredom in the workplace is growing, affecting everyone. 

Weariness can hinder the quality of service they provide (or are perceived to provide) to their customers. It can hinder our relationships with everyone that we need to deliver with. And it will affect our capability to get most jobs to be done effective, efficiently and triumphantly. Therefore, the other the first impression of the people towards us, is based on our behavior. The impressions that we transfer throughout our behaviour  like boredom is a major influence that can affect the response of the people towards us.

As our actions is so transparent, it is necessary that human’s judgement about us will be based on our actions. So whether people like or dislike us, trust or mistrust we depends on our behaviour. The people's inference to us may not be correct but they can conclude fast about our little actions.  But, the fact remains that people's judgement have to be based on our actions because there is nothing else on which to base them. 

It is okay to be bored sometimes. deal with it. Be at comfortable with it. If you want to defeat it, be attentive. Don’t permit yourself to get bored. I simply consider of the things that can be produce and can benefit myself. If you executed to be discipline, boredom can't hinder you because boredom can disregard you.