A person who is thoroughly defensive in his heart, who insists on resisting the tedious experience, also defends himself. He will never drink the most powerful elixir that comes from the deepest part of his heart.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you:
All of these manifestations have the same emotional roots:
Tediousness
B O R E D O M
Yes, tedium – this emotion is often looked down upon or ignored. However, it really affects the lives of millions of modern people.
In his novel The Fall, Albert Camus describes how people suffer from boredom:
"I know a man who dedicated twenty years of his life to a woman with a loose mind and sacrificed everything for her, his friendship, his work, the dignity of his life. One night, he realized that he had never loved her. Like most people, he had always felt that life was boring, nothing more. Unable to tolerate boredom, he must create intricate puzzles and dramatic changes in his life.
Something must happen – this explains the vast majority of human giving and giving. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. ”
If we don't understand, perceive, and reconcile our relationship with boredom, then we are likely to pay a great price.
Today and tomorrow, we will unlock the sense of boredom together.
Today, we help people realize whether the feelings of meaninglessness, alcoholism, busyness, depression, abusive relationships, etc. in their lives are related to boredom.
Bernstein distinguishes and describes two tedious feelings:
This article revolves around the first, chronic boredom.
But if a person can't feel the taste of life, this is because life this melon has no taste? Or is it because this person does not have the ability to taste the melon of life?
The above question is also the fun of our study of "tediousness"!
Chronic boredom contains one key element:
A given status quo or one's own existence as a whole is unsatisfactory.
But the manifestations of chronic boredom are far more complex than "dissatisfaction". Next, we will expand on one of the most significant features, as well as the four features extended by it.
The most notable features of chronic boredom are:
Sounds a bit mysterious. We might as well read the novel Diary of a Country Priest by the French writer Georges Bernanos, who described the tedious, imperceptible destructiveness this way:
This is the most typical feeling of chronic boredom.
Do you think that such a description is still too vague for mrs.
Next, we will borrow the short story that happened to Jenny to introduce 4 kinds of extension characteristics of chronic boredom:
If after reading today's article, you feel that you or the people around you may be plagued by chronic boredom, don't be afraid, you are not alone!
After the article, we will unlock these core questions: