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|  Dhananjaya D R                   @/logs   @/software   @/resume   @/contact |
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Constant novelty over the internet makes you bored easily with everything!
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 Life is short but people                      
     still get bored.                           YYAAaaaawwwnnn...     
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I often run into people that knew of my old hobbies like writing, sports, 
animation, classical dance… etcetera they ask me: “Why did you stop man? You 
were good at it” but I make up some dumb excuse about why I got bored. For 
example, I play chess. I would play for a couple of months, quit, rinse and 
repeat. I genuinely enjoy the game but I can’t sustain enjoyment. I am not sure
if anyone can relate to this but I get bored of everything, way more than the 
average person. Even things I enjoy get stale quickly. One thing I’ve always 
struggled with was consistency. Honestly it makes me go WTF? I’ve tried an 
endless list of things but it seems that nothing really sticks. For me, 
technology is one of the very few things that seems to stick the most and 
although I genuinely enjoy it, I have bouts of boredom. Then I come back and 
it’s fun again.

The only possible explanation I could think of is “constant novelty over the 
internet makes you bored easily with everything!” because novelty is 
pleasurable. When you’re experiencing something new for the first time, your 
brain is very stimulated as it tries to process the experience and deal with 
the new stimuli. There are a lot of ways your brain derives pleasure, however,
so if we’re receiving pleasure from some other source (could be drugs or the 
sheer bliss of laying in a comfortable bed on a cold day) then the feeling of 
boredom is less pronounced even if the brain isn’t being directly stimulated by 
some external experience.
                                             
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