We all get bored sometime in our life. The feeling of boredom results from lack of excitement, adventure, or otherwise fun activities. It instills a sense of unrest in the bored person and he does not know what to do. Most people try to get rid of boredom by engaging in activities that kill time. Sometime, they do some activities that excite them. For example, it is common for bored people to go to a restaurant to eat good food or go to see a movie or engage themselves in some activity which engages their mind for sometime till the feeling of boredom disappears. Some people, even take drugs, engage in binge drinking and even go to the prostitutes to get rid of boredom.
Yet many people cannot get rid of boredom since they do not understand boredom and they fail to find a solution to overcome boredom. The activities with a purpose of killing time only do the symptomatic treatment of boredom. As a result, boredom comes back again and again in the lives of people. When people fail to find an external means to overcome their feeling of boredom, they get depressed and even commit suicide since they find no purpose of life and hence no reason to live. R. I. Fitzhenry, the founder of Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited Publisher said,
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
The feeling of boredom has a purpose just like the feeling of pain. A pain in the body gives you a signal that there is some problem in the ailing part of the body. In the same way, boredom is a signal that tells you that your mind is not happy with what you are doing. The feeling of boredom is caused when you are not doing anything you love. When you live your life in a way that most of the time, you are simply working to earn your living as a machine or as a passive human being; your mind brings boredom to make you realize that you need to do something else. However, just like most people instead of listening to the signal of pain and taking remedial action to relive the pain, take medicine that suppresses the pain, most people engage their mind in an activity that kills the time.
If you are feeling bored even when you have so much of pending work, you must learn to listen to your soul as in the time of boredom, all external attachments seem unattractive. In this time, you can discover yourself and your soul. Once who has discovered the real self i.e. soul, you also understand the true meaning of life and your actual role in the world.
Most creative people are, therefore, quite boring people in the traditional sense. They are not engaged in many external activities as they have developed a communication with their soul. The soul is never restless like a body, nor does it demand continuous stimulation. It is peaceful like the water in the depth of the sea. The peace of the soul makes the person peaceful and calm. Yet the mind of the creative person is not inactive even for a minute as it is constantly discovering new horizons inside. When a creative person represents his mind in any form, he creates something new and useful for the world which is loved by other people. The musicians discover soothing music from their soul and poets discover poems. The scientists discover their greatest findings from their innermost self.
If you have not been making the best use of boredom, it is difficult to be creative. Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of all times has correctly said,
"Boredom is the highest mental state."
Life is a mystery which can not be explained either by science or by scriptures. Truth has a body and a soul which we call science and religion. Contrary to popular perception, they are not opposed to each other but complement each other like body and soul. In fact, they can not exist without each other.
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