A Conversation for Boredom

Are Boredom and Idleness the same?

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Maybe it's just because I haven't experienced much of it but I would kind of welcome a bit more idleness as long as there was enough income to pay the bills and I didn't have to watch daytime television. Boredom is something to which most people, including me, are averse. It is a state that we soon want to get out of (or out of which we soon want to get, if we're really bored.)

Idleness, however, is not necessarily such a bad thing. The philosopher, Bertrand Russell, wrote an essay called "In Praise of Idleness", for example. http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html


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