Boredom? Ooooh...that's a toughie. It's horrible being bored. I think it's a symptom of having lost the sense of what your life is really about. A lot of boredom is a form of depression, usually.

Many people try to cure it through short term distraction, and many methods of doing that have been suggested above, but they're all just a quick fix, I think.

There's masturbation, too, but it only gets you just so far...

And then, maybe you're bored again. Plus tired out in certain parts...

Yeeesh! Life's a drag sometimes, ain't it?

To find an urgent sense of real purpose would totally clear up boredom.

This may be one big reason why all of Europe went to war in 1914, and massacred each other for 5 years. My grandmother was living in Vienna at the time, and she said there was absolute celebration in the streets when the war was declared. People were deliriously happy about it, throwing flowers from the balconies on the marching soldiers in the streets, heading off to glory.

That's the "precipitating a crisis" cure to boredom.

Three years later they were surviving on rats and potatoe peelings, the economy was in a shambles, and their sons were missing or dead.

Yup, boredom is a tough one.

Here's an idea. Try making someone else feel good...that can have surprising results sometimes. It doesn't have to be anything big.

- LH