10 Reasons Why Your Life is Boring and How To Overcome Them
With so many means to entertain oneself these days like media entertainment, sports, food, travel, and so on, it’s hard to think that people can still get bored.There are also so many activities that one can do these days like chasing your dream career, studying the things that interests you, interacting with old and new friends and so on, can more than fill one’s feeling of emptiness towards life.
But people do experience boredom in life because of varying reasons, mostly due to their own fault. Here are a few reasons why and what to do with them:
Table of Contents:
1. You Reject New Things2. You’re Not Active
3. You Have No Goals
4. You’re Not Keen on Being Friendly
5. You’re Lazy
6. You Wait for Opportunities
7. Depression
8. High Standards
9. You Can’t Do Things Alone
10. You Like Being Alone
Final Words
The Details:
1. You Reject New Things
Rejecting new things is one of the most common causes of boredom, especially as you mature and grow older.
Usually, as you mature/grow old, your thinking and outlook in life becomes set. For example, most people’s musical tastes are set during their teenage years. Later in life, these same teenagers who have become mature adults already, are mostly unable to appreciate new music.
The solution to this is to stay youthful and continue to appreciate and be interested in new things in life, no matter how set you are in your ways.
Don’t be afraid to try new things and take calculated risks. For example, you can try foods from other countries. It’s like traveling on the cheap were you sample the culture of other countries without traveling.
Who knows? By trying on new things, you might just discover the things that would make your life so meaningful and filled with happiness.
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2. You’re Not Active
Living an inactive lifestyle promotes boredom. For example, being inactive makes you weak and slow, making you unable to do or poor at sports and other physical activities. This severely limits what you can do which can lead to boredom.
Also, being active enables you to use your time productively, even only if to keep yourself healthy.
It’s no big secret that exercise and even just an active lifestyle helps stimulate our brain, making us feel better mentally and physically. Numerous scientific studies have come to the same conclusion.
That’s why you should continue to exercise or at least stay active even if you have already reached old age. In fact, exercising and being active is one of the keys to a long life. Numerous scientific studies have also come to the same conclusion.
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3. You Have No Goals
Having no goals in life demotivates you to do anything in life. People who have no goals usually live life like a routine, just waiting for their day to end and to be repeated again the next day.
But goals make life worth living. It gives us a reason to wake up in the morning and it fills up our day.
But having goals especially financial ones, can be in real life very daunting. Undeniably, life is hard and often, even simple goals can seem very impossible.
While there is no concrete way to succeed in your goals, this shouldn’t make you not try at all. Numerous examples abound of people overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve their goals.
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4. You’re Not Keen on Being Friendly
A lot of people are bored because they have no or so few people to interact with. People are by nature social animals. People need human contact to make their lives livable.
This is the reason why many people who are isolated go crazy, because they lack or have no human contact.
Unless you are stranded alone on an isolated island, there is no reason for you not to seek out human contact. You don’t have to go out on your way to contact people all the time, most of the time you just need to be friendly with the people around you.
You shouldn’t only be friendly, but you should also be personable. This would further encourage people around you to approach you and share their life with you, which makes your life fulfilling and not boring.
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5. You’re Lazy
A lazy person usually lives a boring life because they are unwilling to act on things involving their life, including things that could make their life fulfilling and happy.
For example, a lazy person would rather sit down on their couch the whole day and eat snacks while watching television when they could be down on the beach enjoying the sun, sea and the company of other people.
While eating snacks in front of the television the whole day might seem fun and enjoyable, doing this the whole time would surely become boring in due time.
If you are lazy and choose only activities that require the least effort, you are basically restricting the things that you can do which leads to a boring life. To combat laziness, you should put extra effort in the things you do in life.
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6. You Wait for Opportunities
Unless you take a proactive approach in life, your life would become boring. For example, if you are bored with your career, you should seek out new career opportunities, instead of waiting for career opportunities to come to you.
If you wait for career opportunities to come to you, they would likely not come to you, just like most things in life.
Another example would be in the area of relationships. If a man doesn’t develop the courage to approach women, he would most likely stay an unfulfilled bachelor and grow old not having experienced family life.
This is why you should not wait for opportunities to come to you, because in reality only a few people are granted opportunities in life without asking for it. For the most part in real life, people have to chase opportunities.
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7. Depression
People who are clinically depressed are not usually at fault why they are bored. Boredom for these people is just a symptom of a much serious case of mental sickness.
If you find yourself being depressed all the time without you being able to know the reason, you might be suffering from depression.
If your depression lingers on for a long time, it might be a good idea to seek counseling from a medical expert. Usually, a psychiatrist or a psychologist can help you with your depression.
They would analyze your depression and would prescribe actions which you should take. They might even prescribe medications for you.
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8. High Standards
Sometimes, you can have such high standards that you end up limiting your life, which leads you to boredom.
For example, you might only want wealthy, beautiful, and/or intellectual friends, causing you to limit the company you keep.
There are just so many wealthy, beautiful and/or intellectual people around and finding or encountering them might be next to impossible, especially if you are an ordinary person yourself.
The less people you interact with, the more is the possibility that you would lead a boring life. So, try to set your standards lower and accept as many people in you life as you can, no matter how lowly in life they might seem.
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9. You Can’t Do Things Alone
You can’t be with someone all the time. There would be times when you are left to fend for yourself.
If you don’t learn to do things by yourself, you could become bored with your life. For example, if you can’t go out to have a good time without having friends tagging along, you might find yourself not having a good time at all.
This is because not every one of your loved ones and friends share your enthusiasm for the things you like and do. For example, you might like going to museums but your loved ones and friends do not. With no one to accompany you, you’ll probably not go to museums at all.
But going to museums and doing the other things you enjoy and like despite being alone can be very fulfilling. You just need to realize that there would be instances in your life when you have to do things on your own, especially the ones you find fulfilling.
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10. You Like Being Alone
There are people who enjoy being alone and doing things by themselves. These people are usually called introverts.
If you are one, then you are not bored at all, but is actually happy being left alone by others to do the things you want. In short, you have no problem at all.
In fact, the company of most people probably bores you. You also are probably bored with what most normal people to do. In short, you have your own thing going on in your life.
But even though you are not bored with being an introvert, you should also strive to get out of your shell once in a while to meet other people. This is because being alone always can become very boring even though you enjoy it.
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Final Words
There might be a lot of reasons why you are bored with life. You might be set in you ways and reject doing new things. You might not enjoy the company of people or have such high standards when it comes to people.
You might also be suffering from clinical depression and may need medical help from a medical professional or counsellor.
Or you might just be an introvert and prefer the boring life of being alone. There are simply numerous reasons why you can be bored as enumerated in this article.
But staying active, willing to try on new things, having goals, being friendly, being proactive, chasing opportunities, and the willingness to accept all kinds of people, would cure you of depression and lead you to a fulfilling and happy life.
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