<story><title>Being Bored Is Good</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I&amp;#x27;m able to write about game ideas, code them, create some characters and story and background, even though it doesn&amp;#x27;t lead to anything since it&amp;#x27;s more of a hobby, but I fail to make it into a job. I love to think, create, try to design little things, and honestly that&amp;#x27;s the best pleasure I have.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;m really unhappy. Nihilism is a good way to cope with my own reality. I don&amp;#x27;t think people who fill their time with a job to kill the boredom are doing themselves a favor. The philosophy of contributing to society to gain money, quality holidays and entertainment seems weird to me.&lt;p&gt;I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&amp;#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&amp;#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brokenmachine</author><text>&amp;gt;I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&amp;#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&amp;#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.&lt;p&gt;Everyone reading this will be dead in 90 years. We are stranded on a giant rock spinning through frozen space.&lt;p&gt;At the end of it all there will be nothing but the heat death of the universe. Nothing and nobody will survive.&lt;p&gt;There is no larger purpose. There will be nobody alive to remember any good or bad deeds you may do.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, you have the choice to either be depressed about it, or try to enjoy as much of it as you can while you can.&lt;p&gt;I enjoy listening to and producing music and playing sport. Also enjoying nature and peace and quiet. I like nice food and spending time with my partner.&lt;p&gt;I love my life, except work which to me is an unfortunate necessity. I just try to maximize my enjoyment and that makes me feel alive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Being Bored Is Good</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-being-bored-is-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I&amp;#x27;m able to write about game ideas, code them, create some characters and story and background, even though it doesn&amp;#x27;t lead to anything since it&amp;#x27;s more of a hobby, but I fail to make it into a job. I love to think, create, try to design little things, and honestly that&amp;#x27;s the best pleasure I have.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;m really unhappy. Nihilism is a good way to cope with my own reality. I don&amp;#x27;t think people who fill their time with a job to kill the boredom are doing themselves a favor. The philosophy of contributing to society to gain money, quality holidays and entertainment seems weird to me.&lt;p&gt;I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you&amp;#x27;re just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&amp;#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ne01</author><text>&amp;gt; In my own conception of life, I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can not feel lost if they don&amp;#x27;t create something that stems from their own selves.&lt;p&gt;Then you must ask why those who have accomplished their dreams (doing what they want) still feel lost. I know many.&lt;p&gt;The real question is: what can complete the emptiness that I feel?&lt;p&gt;The answer is simple: Nothing! There is no emptiness -- stop imagining one.&lt;p&gt;Do what your heart desires, experience life, create stuff, change the world as you wish, but remember, oh my friend, you are not just this!</text></comment>