A Sure-Fire Cure for Boredom

I am very rarely bored, so I thought I'd offer some advice for those who are.

The Slave Ship A Miserable Dungeon

Crammed onto slave ships, more than a million of them died en route, their bodies cast overboard to feed a flotilla of sharks. The rest - the lucky ones - descended into a living hell. A "floating dungeon," the slave ship was their first "home" in captivity. "So much misery condensed in so little room," exclaimed the British abolitionist William Wilberforce, "is more than the human imagination had ever before conceived."

If society has seen fit to allow you enough free time to think about wallowing in self pity for not being able to think of anything interesting to think about, then why not instead think about how you are not currently a slave on a slave ship? Boredom problem solved!!

No offense intended, but c'mon. Boredom is one of the last things in life that deserves sympathy!

I will say this though. I strongly suspect that the more resistant to boredom one becomes, the harder it is to sleep. Insomnia becomes a byproduct. There never seems to be enough time in the day for those not easily bored. I never want each day to end. I never want to stop actively thinking, even if it leads to dreaming. This is not a complaint, for I would not want it any other way. It's simply an observation.