People aren’t bored enough. It’s good for you.
Unironically it’s been done for thousands of years and is called meditation. Once you’ve washed the bowls, picked the crops, clothes are clean, floors are swept, you have to figure out how to make the most of just sitting down for awhile. Though being bored today I think is fighting the urge to do something when there are infinite things calling for your attention, which I guess is sort of a modern meditation in itself.
This is actually one of the reasons I love the beach. I lie there, close my eyes, listen to the sounds around me, maybe drift off for a minute, maybe listen to music, read a few chapters of my book. My beach days are usually like 3hrs about, though. I have friends that like to go to the beach at 9a and stay until 6p. That’s too much for me
If you’re bored sitting on the beach, get up and play in the water. Or get intoxicated.
Just wait a few minutes and some family will post up next to you, turn on their speaker playing terrible music, and immediately fuck off to the water leaving you to stew in their “best of alt country 2003-2007” Playlist.
Beach trips were lots of fun back when I was 10 and I enjoyed playing in the water with the other kids, but they’re not very interesting now that I’m an adult who doesn’t particularly like swimming. (I’d rather be somewhere air-conditioned.) At least I do swim - I don’t understand people who come to the beach without any intention of getting into the water.
Just had a weeklong beach vacation. We sat on the beach once for about half an hour before the sun was too much. We mostly just took morning and evening walks on the beach. We’re not really swimmers either, which was good because the surf was fucking lethal pretty much every day. Once day the waves were reaching the dunes and pooling past the high-tide line. Kids were constantly swimming and it was incredibly dangerous. I think most days were red flag and the “nice” ones were yellow.
The beach is pretty awful these days and we aren’t even that far south.
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Relaxation is a skill that is harder to develop than it should be
True but relaxation doesn’t mean doing nothing. It’s doing what you like to do at your own pace. I’m currently at carribeans and yet have to see a beach.