Missing out on something

I recommend drugs:

✓ Cheap compared to other hobbies like travel or gambling or having a family
✓ Meet new real and not so real friends
✓ Can make your suffering aka life shorter

Sceintific cookies Butter:  Grind about 1-2g of active ingredient  Heat oven (non convection) to 118c (245f), use baking tray & parchment paper to bake 30-40 min, stirring every 15 min or so to bake evenly, remove and cool.  Prep rice cooke to “keep warm” mode  Empty the water, add butter & prepared active ingredients  Heat for 2.5hrs  Check every 20 min or so to make sure it doesn’t go above 93c (200f)  Cool  NOTE weigh butter before adding to recipe, as there may be some water loss during heating-just top up with regular butter/margerine 36 60g cookies 395 g brown sugar 225 g granulated sugar 25 g vanilla sugar 350 g Veg margarine or butter 25 g oil 59 ml water 0 pinch salt mixer #2 speed cream together about 5 minutes 900 g ap flour 3 1/2 g baking soda 20 g baking powder combine dry ingredients add slowly to mixer 150 g chopped chocolate (vegan) combine to mix bake 60g scoop 200C for 7 minutes SCIENCE!
I heard nutmeg extract it great

"Bored" pisses me off. There's too much to do, to learn, to experience to be fucking bored. I mean, unless you're stuck at work or some shit.

There may be too much to be bored, but there's just the right amount and more to be habitually depressed!
- Well, boredom is not depression.
I am bored and I have plenty to do, the bigger selection makes it impossible to choose and then I do not choose.
- In the words of Neil Peart, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
  Work on making a better one.
That's the point isn't it? If we're unlucky much of our life might revolve around going to work and doing maintenance around going to work and sleeping. Now I agree that anyone in that position probably has a choice they could make to free up their life but it's quite a feat of will power to do it. There are also people in this cycle that have started families and don't have much freedom.
- There are also people in this cycle that have started families and don’t have much freedom.
  I'd argue that people with families have even fewer excuses for being bored.
There is but all of it takes MONEY!! and TIME!!!. And i don't have enough alcohol around me to not be bored. Best I can do is video games(I'm lucky to have a laptop).
- If you have a laptop that can play video games, there is so much else you can do. Not that there's anything wrong with video games. Video games are awesome.
- gaming is great (I usually play an hour or 2 a day) but break it up a bit. maybe do an online micro credential, you can normally find free short courses. learn a language (easy to do for free if you have internet and some time). learn a new skill. learn design so you can put the laptop to work. and every now and then, when gaming burns you out, learning is too much and you literally have no chance to do anything else, sit under a tree for a little bit. yes, even at night. it'll help
Imagine having access to the Internet and say you are bored.

I'm bored

Well, go do something!

In this economy?
Papa always told me boredom is a choice.
- Or a sign of depression. Either or. One or the other. Just those two things.

You're supposed to find a passion or hobby that you can excel at in your spare time. Meanwhile, capitalism in the US has decided to make every effort to extract all possible time from you at bare minimum compensation so that you are too tired and too poor to ever figure out a hobby or passion you can effectively pursue.

Surprisingly, I've found the most fulfillment from raising and caring for my three-year-old daughter. I always feel immense pride when I'm tidying up the house and come abroad a pile of drawings or an arrangement not only of her toys, but whatever things she's found of mine (ie; the Peewee Herman action figure I keep beside my PC). But as fulfilling as it is, children are also inadvertently vampires and drain you of nearly everything you have. So I have to take pleasure in other things as well, like reading fiction, playing games with my wife, and spending time in nature. What I really need is a good mushroom trip through the forest, but it's been several years since I've been comfortable enough to step away from responsibility and parenthood to do something like that, even though it's a wonderful tool to bring one's self back to earth and get your brain firing again.

Highly recommend trying that if you're in the same mental cycle as OP. Definitely don't opt for children if your goal is fulfillment, though. You may gain something huge, but you're also signing off on the other side of your life. It's certainly not a good fit for everyone. You'd think this obvious advice, but a lot of people do just that and wind up miserable and resentful, and their kids in turn grow up with less love and respect than they could otherwise have.

My brother told me to have kids. He said raising his daughter was the best thing he's ever done. I don't disagree, she's awesome.
I don't find it surprising that being a parent is super rewarding if you do it well. I can't imagine being a parent who raises a shitstain who does something terrible and having to live with that.
- Our oldest (7) entered public school last year and my expectations for other parents lowered to a point that I never thought possible. I was worried she wouldn't adjust well or would shut down, but nope the teachers gush to us about her constantly. I'm not patting myself on the back at all because it's 90% my daughter being awesome and somehow having high emotional intelligence at her age. How proud I am is leaking out.
  Shit parents do create shit kids though. The saying is good parents often create good kids but bad parents almost always make bad kids. For example the douche parents at my kid's school created the kid that steals from the teacher constantly and is in the "trouble room" every day.
- The way we describe having a kid is that it's the best/worst thing you'll ever do.
- I mean there is a chance you can do everything well and still end up with a shitstain of a human when having kids. Sociopaths and Narcissists sometimes just happen.

well no, you're supposed to generate as much profit as possible for someone else at every moment. nothing is truly designed to help people or provide a good service anymore, at least not without hefty profit margins -- as is their god given right. i mean its a business they hvae to do the number!!

Well, you know the old Greek saying:
"A society grows great when people plant trees whose fruit they will not enjoy, for the corporation will have other people pick it, package it, and sell it back to them all at a 150% profit margin."
- I'm sure thats Rule of Acquisition #240-something.

There is no point. At least, there's no overarching design or plan behind your existence. Instinctively we are driven to survive, so the question is: what else?

While we exist, we have senses which can provide pleasure or pain, so the most selfish answer would be to seek pleasures and enjoy them while you can. The correlary being to minimize pain or suffering, which serves as a check on unrestrained pleasure.

I like to take this a step further and work not only to optimize my own pleasure, but the pleasure of others around me. Then guilt is no longer an issue because your pleasure is complementary to theirs. They benefit when you reduce their pain and vice versa.

I believe the original problem stems from artifically self-imposed limitations and expectations on what should be, rather than engaging with what is and imagining what could be.

Work all week, too tired to do something fun. Corporate profits unreasonably high and now I can't afford to engage in activities. Individualistic, nuclear family, isolation because communes reduce profits. Breathing poisoned air, drinking contaminated water, eating trash, refined food. Lost in a maze of suburbs, battling long transit times, alone in a sea of cars. Everyone's left for jobs, or busy working jobs, no time to meet new people.

What is, like, the point?

Do we sit in his emotional wasteland, producing for an other, alone and without the energy to do anything but work until we get sick and can't afford healthcare / are told by doctors the elderly are not their priority as they're no longer productive?

These are my thoughts every day right now, and I don't know how to get out of that depression loop.
I'm about a year and a half in remission from cancer. I started a new career to better my work-life balance and take care of my health. I thought surviving would give me a rejuvinated outlook on life, and I would "enjoy the little things" more.
No. When does that start?
Instead, I wake up every day thinking, what is the point? Who am I living for if I don't have the time, money, or resources to do anything that brings joy to my life.
- Move to a new country. Make life work for you, not the opposite.
I'll admit, because of my Christian upbringing, I have begun to wonder if this is Hell. Just enough hope for you to know that it could be better, but no memory of anything but this. There's enough people not suffering (or at least pretending not to) to give hope, but no ability to ever change it. Isolation, pain, monotony, and just enough joy for most people to keep marching onward until they die, hoping that eventually it will get better.
- If this is a recurring thought I would highly suggest pointing you towards Buddhism. I highly recommend the book "in the face of fear" Buddhist wisdom for challenging times. It has writings from all sorts of intelligent people, and does a good job of explaining how to transform them into tools.

Get some damn hobbies! Does she just sit in a chair with a blank face while listening to podcasts? Auditory media is meant to supplement another activity no wonder shes so damm bored

Auditory media is meant to supplement another activity no wonder shes so damm bored
Casual listening is not the same thing as listening to a music as a hobby. Hobbyists like myself will listen to an album without doing anything else. It's definitely not "meant" to be a secondary activity. No shade of that's how you listen, though.
That is a very odd take on auditory media, from my perspective. Do you not focus on music or podcasts you listen to? Are you always doing something else?
- As with most things, it depends. I could listen to an audiobook while working out but not while programming. I could listen to instrumental music while reading a book, but I couldn't focus with a vocal track included. Some podcasts might require you to listen to every word while others may only require you to feel the overall topic.
- Doing other things at the same time helps me focus on whatever I'm listening to.
  I fidget a lot so it would be distracting to sit still and just listen.
- I can have music as "background noise" but podcasts no way, if I am not focusing on what someone else is communicating, what is the point?

My dad says it's so we can be best friends with some dead guy.

I briefly forgot that religion was a thing and was wondering wtf your dad meant by this.
- Religion? I believe he's talking about this guy Bernie. He's super rad.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.

Part of boredom is simply lacking direction and not knowing what to do/where to even start

Press escape key to check the objectives. Someone clearly didn't complete the tutorial.
- RTFM, right?
- My tutorial went like this
  Welcome to th
  smashes spacebar*
  Press X t
  smashes spacebar*
  Press e to
  smashes spacebar*
  You can r (hold escape to exit tutor

My thought process during covid. I bought a motorcycle and basically can't stay in one place anymore.

As Mrs. Draper says, boring people get bored.

Boredom is good, as long as you let your mind wander. If you fill it with social media and other low effort crap, then boredom is just time wasted.
Boredom and letting your mind wander will lead to something interesting.
- so true. just go outside, no phone, and sit under a tree for an hour. you won't feel bored after long, in fact you'll probably feel great. I garuntee it

You can sometimes make coffee or a podcast. The rest is haram.

Damn... what in the younger-millenial hell is this take?

Maybe drop the entitlement and stop passively waiting for someone else to provide some meaning and purpose to your life. Read a book, take a walk in a park, adopt a pet, learn to cook, play a board game with a friend, smoke a joint and watch the sun set.

I get that it's probably supposed to be some generic "capitalism is ruining the world" sentiment, but this person just sounds insufferable.

- Didn't you know? Being sad didn't exist before millennials came and ruined being happy, like everything else!
- This was NOT a popular comment... lmao
About as insufferable as this comment.
All those things combined doesn't make up for all the bullshit we have to endure to afford to do that.
And no matter what our bodies still rot and die, and your brain isn't getting backed up to "the cloud" either so might as well have never existed in the first place is a valid sentiment.

Are y'all not doing shit?

I have just enough energy to take care of my family and house after work. I don't do other shit because I'm exhausted.
- Hot take from a father, taking care of the family is the hobby. My kid turns 18 next month, I'm exhausted and look forward to the "friend before parent" switch to flip.
I am not

What's up with podcasts? I tried once but I get too bored listening to someone talking while I so anything else.

You are supposed to listen to something that you enjoy. Maybe news, gaming, history, crime story podcast or audiobooks. You can listen to it while commuting or doing chores.
Try listening during your commute
Find one where someone interviews a person who's work interests you.
Maybe a musician or author you like or someone like that.
I only listen to podcasts for particularly interesting topics. One of my favourites was Sold a Story, which is about the complete failure of a reading system that is "whole word" or "whole language". Taking phonics away from kids was a huge mistake and why so many people are barely literate now.
- Taught / teaching my boys to read with OLD phonics books (some non-PC shit in old "kids" books). 7yo is just about to finish Harry Potter and reads other books constantly. The soon to be 5yo is just starting his reading journey....is reading 1, 2 & 3 letter words quite well, gets better every day.
  No TV and parents valuing reading as both entertainment and information, are the keys to getting kids to read.

.... Yeah. I feel so bored of my life rn. But like I deserve to be, its boring, I need to change things.

If you're bored then you're boring

What a way to play down depression man.
- Bordem is not the same thing as depression. And, ironically, that equivocation actually does play down depression.

Sex drugs and rock and roll. What more do you want

What sex and drugs?

They're clearly listening to the wrong podcasts

As other mentioned, you can have a hobbies, just do things and discover. It can be dancing, playing tennis, drawing, listening and collecting cd and vinyl and so on. Some hobbies require money some others not, it's up you and what you want to do.

Sometimes there are stories.

Be boring and get bored. Find a fuckin hobby or something