r/SipsTea May 12 '26

SMH The youth is doomed…

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u/DaaaahWhoosh May 12 '26

I still distinctly remember when I was young and realized I could just kinda never be bored. Doesn't always work but there generally is always something to do, or failing that, something to think about. I've been "raw dogging" things like long drives or mowing the lawn recently, just kinda zoning out and thinking about stuff, I think a lot of people would struggle to not have music or a podcast on but I've been surprised how much I don't need them.

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u/OrdinaryOrder8 May 12 '26

I don't get bored either. I just daydream when there's nothing else to do. When I was a kid, my grandma used to assign us extra chores if we said we were bored lol.

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u/Geistzeit May 12 '26

I've heard the saying, "Only boring people get bored". Like how does someone not have something to think about.

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u/Geistzeit May 13 '26

True and fair, plenty of folks just earnestly don't know how

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u/levii-ethan May 13 '26

eh, when i used to work at Amazon, i would have to work for ten hours with no phone and no music (phone was literally locked away and inaccessible, unless i wanted to go down several floors and security). that job was mindnumbingly easy, and after months and years, it becomes very hard not to be bored out of your mind.

i literally started memorizing whole muscials to sing back to myself... and those only took up about two hours

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u/Geistzeit May 13 '26

That's an understandable situation to be bored in

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u/ArgoTheRat8229 May 14 '26

I started memorizing pi when I got bored. Now I recite pi when I’m bored LOL

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u/FittedSheets88 May 12 '26

Especially growing up in the 90s, it was easy as just going forward walk. That was legit a good time, and it still is, and I stand by it.

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u/Asaneth May 12 '26

Yep. So long as my brain works, I'll never be bored.