A question was bubbling fiercely in my head during this morning. It just joined in the network of my thoughts, as I was jotting down my notes. The thought sprang up into life as I was enjoying my studies and then a voice said in my head: why do some people don't enjoy studies? The answer to that question formed a chain with a completely different network of thoughts which focuses on hanging out with friends, a cinema lover or partying hard. A person who doesn't enjoy studies must be giving an enthusiastic response to some other stimulus, that may be different from the ones mentioned above. So any xyz stimulus can cause an individual to dance in enjoyment but if it doesn't happen, then what would that situation be called as? Boredom? The two concepts which are 'boredom' and 'enjoyment' led to the birth of a question (yes, the same question I had typed down in the first line) which rose above all the networks of thoughts in my mind.
Is there a link between boredom and enjoyment?
I agree that the introductory paragraph is very confusing but I can't help it! This is what happens when we try to phrase the birth of an idea which joins with another idea which joins with some other that just appeared out of nowhere into words!
Phew! So now I would like to create an explanation that would give justice to my question. I am a bit certain that there is some link between the two and I will try to explain it in a less confusing way (wink*)
What is enjoyment? Hmmm. Not so easy to describe it. That is because this particular feeling varies from individual to individual.
For some enjoyment is:
For some enjoyment is:
For some enjoyment is:
How diverse, isn't it? One more thing I would like to add is any thing that an individual enjoys or an action which he enjoys to do could be hereditary or inculcated due to an external influence.
Now I would like to take this matter one step further. It is an universal fact that one human being cannot enjoy all the situations which takes shape in the passage of time. A boy is enjoying himself on the ground as he plays football wholeheartedly with his friends, laughing, falling, running and jumping until his mom orders him to stop playing and takes him to the mall.
Oh God.
So one can expect that he would be carrying that face during the entire mall adventure, his face growing worse with the increase in excitement his mom's face radiates as she experiments the shops one by one.
What is that the poor little fellow going through?
Boredom.
Why is he getting bored? The answer is so simple. It is because shopping doesn't please him the way football does. So the things which actually doesn't make you feel happy will eventually make you feel miserable and bored. It's very humane. Everyone experiences this kind of circumstance sometime or the other. But certain situations are unavoidable. If such a situation is not 'enjoyable' in your opinion, then what would you do? Carry that swollen face all the time? Of course not.
As I am typing down this article of mine, I got the answer to the question I had mentioned above. The link between enjoyment and boredom is your own mind. The way you perceive things is actually depended on the scene you have already drawn on your mind. If something is boring for you, that is because you have already visualised it as a thing you would detest. But if you try to shake that illusion and put it up as:'Not a big deal. I can give it a try!' will make you enjoy it and will safeguard you from falling into the trap of boredom.
Attitude changes everything. So never give up on tuning your mind into a direction that you must have never witnessed. But just make sure of one thing that light should be able to travel smoothly across that direction!
This would make you feel like:
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