There must be a lot of people living lives of extraordinary luxury if that is the case – mostly teenagers.

Yes and it should be Taxed !

This depends on what I am occupied with. I like working towards things, like education and career stuff. I do not like being busy with a videogame or something, it means I’m not bored, but I’m wasting time instead. Although I like to actually be bored sometimes, it allows time for thinking and reflecting. People should sit down in silence sometimes and be bored because they will be foreced to actually think.

It sounds like you are misunderstanding the definition of the word.

“It would be nice to not deal with the stress and have the freedom to do whatever I want.”

You can have this without being bored. You can be bored and not be stress-free and not be free to do whatever you want.

“Do you ever feel this way or do you take pleasure in being occupied most of the time?”

Just because you are occupied most of the time does not mean you are not bored. Likewise, just because you are not occupied most of the time does not mean that you are bored.

Being bored is not a measure of how much you have going on in your life. It is more a mental state of how you are perceiving what is or is not going on in your life. People that experience boredom are disinterested, not necessarily carefree, unoccupied, or not busy.

I can’t imagine being bored. Not in my nature. I don’t like being real busy, though. Feeling “at leisure” is my ideal and I feel like that a lot of the time. Lucky me.

I have been very busy and bored at the same time. I don’t find it to be a luxurious feeling but rather a feeling of being tired of the mundane or repetitive..

A shrink once told me that boredom resulted from anger, which I thought at first was the dumbest thing he ever said. But since then, when I am bored, I dig down to whatever might be making me angry. If I can find it, I can then decide not to be angry, and suddenly I can shake off the boredom and be productive again.

Yes, boredom is a huge luxury.

I do not see boredom as a luxury at all. At best, it is an inconvenient problem that you must take time out of your life to deal with.

There’s an important between being “bored” and being “relaxed”. Being bored means you have nothing to occupy yourself. You have freedom to do whatever you want, but there’s nothing you want to do. So I don’t see it as a luxury. I see it as an inconvenience and a sorry state. To me, being free from stress doesn’t mean you’re bored; the two are not mutually exclusive. Being free from stress means…well, that you’re free. You can do what you want and there are things you want to do—things that don’t cause stress. It’s a positive situation. Being bored is a negative situation where this isn’t anything to do.

The grass is always greener…

I, like you, wish I could be bored when I’m really busy with something I don’t like doing. But of course, when I’m bored, I wish I was busy with something.

@toomuchcoffee911
Very true, I wrote this post when I was slaving over a paper and my boyfriend was complaining about being bored. I just thought, I’d kill to be bored right now!