"Ennui"

Boredom: A state of emotional distress which forces an individual to watch "Days of Our Lives" in 10 reruns.

This is highly relative to how you are as a person. But somewhere in you life, you are bound to experience it.

Ennui or boredom is classified as an unpleasant, time- passing emotional state in which the individual feels an intense lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on a current activity.

Nothing just seems to engage us, despite a profound desire for engagement.

For few people (or more), that brief period (3 - 5 days) after the last day of school, you seem to get absorbed into this spiralling blackhole of nothingness.

Eerie silence creeps up to you, but yet you are able to detect its shrill voice.

Ringing.


So you decide to occupy yourself. Maybe you open the papers to read through its headlines, hoping to read something that could possibly occupy your time for a good 15 minutes. Or you could turn on the television and surf through all 400 channels of cable TV, hoping you would stumble on one channel that is running your favourite show.

But when that hour is up, you return to your saddened state of uninterest. You take a look around the room for a few seconds and decide to slump in the chair a little. Or you might decide to lie down and hope to drift off to sleep. But Weltschmerz won't let you rest. You see, where the Sandman decides to put you to rest for the night, Weltschmerz puts you at un-rest. For him, joy is to see you suffer in silence.

And so after two hours, you decide that you won't stand for it anymore. Just like that game show, you decide to call a friend. In fact, you would give a million just to escape boredom. A rich man may own everything in the world, but when he decides that he has nothing to do anymore, can he still be happy with just material wealth?

The phone on the other end if the line rings. Once, twice, three times it rings and you hear the familiar voice of your friend. For the first time in the middle of the night you twinkle, eyes wide open. But that sudden joy is going to be toppled by a rushed sense of cheated feelings and annoyance.

You hang up the phone and go back to the bedroom. As you lie in your bed looking up at the ceiling, you wonder what everyone else in the world is doing. You have no assignments to finish up at the last minute, no meetings to prepare, no papers to study for. No Nothing.

You wish you could run away from boredom. And thats exactly what you do.


Run.