May 8, 2019
Meanwhile. . .
A survey of 2,000 Americans finds that for the average adult, more than a third of their year is spent mired in boredom. r the survey, the researchers defined a boring day as one that involved simply no fun at all. After averaging out responses of all participants, they calculated that Americans experience 131 boring days annually.
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Let's see... the survey figures that all 330 million Americans experience 131 boring days of no fun per year? The survey is proposing 43.2 billion boring days per year in America, from a sample of 2,000?
Those 2,000 represent 0.0006 percent of all Americans. I hardly think its fair to extrapolate over 43 billion boring American days from such a small sample.
However, what does the survey proposed as a remedy? Ever take one of those hobby and interest surveys where you list those things you're interested in? If you personally are experiencing a boring day, get up and try one of those!
Also, perhaps individuals are feeling that the highest and best use of their time is spent in boredom. That's OK too.
Not sure of the purpose of these studies, except so that someone can go through the motion and have something to publish.
I haven't had a boring day since I could remember, around 1954... Choose well, Oh Wolves! -Akela
Cheers, Tom
Also, my brother pointed out that surviving a car wreak, argument with your SO, or being flung into a pit of hungry wolverines may contain no fun at all, but is not boring.
We (at least my brother and I) don't have time to be bored - there's too much to do!
My Dad had a thing: if there were no work, we should have to invent some...
And John Beall, son of the guy who owned half of McLean and the farmer I worked for when I was 10, said "Tommy, I can do it twice while you're thinking about it once."
I'll bet that survey would have come out differently earlier last century...
Cheers, Tom
I think the survey's definition of boredom has a lot to be desired.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boredom
I used to suffer from boredom, back when I watched TV and expected others to entertain me. Now boredom is for waiting rooms and being sick.
I think I've experienced boredom once in my life. I was in my 50s, the sensation lasted about twenty minutes, and it was very surprising. I didn't even know how to interpret it at first, and when I figured out that it was boredom I was appalled that anyone could spend even a day in such a state without committing suicide.
The rest of my life --I'm pushing 80-- has been the polar opposite of boring: filled with the feeling that my last moments will be like Huey Long's, though with not as much reason: "God, don't let me die, I have so much to do"
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