Post #3351615
2026-06-11 07:01 UTC
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@ZDL@lazysoci.al 2026-06-11 09:04
The trait to be shunned in that is the trait of pushing your entertainment off on others. When someone's entire engagement is "I'm bored", the unspoken follow-up is "entertain me". This generation loves to go on and on and on about "emotional labour". Well guess what: that unspoken "entertain me" is, get this, **emotional labour**. Perhaps the people who say "I'm bored" should be told what I was told when I was single-digit aged: "There's no such thing as being bored, only being boring."
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@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2026-06-11 21:04
I never had many friends to do interesting things with. I talked to people online when it was still new and shiny, and I was a teenager, with the energy to socialize in a way I sure can't today. It was a different world - sometimes people would make a group MSN chat with a number of people and we'd just get to know each other through those mutual friends, who lived all around the world. Rarely did I have a group *in person* to do things with. I spent a lot of time alone, cultivating my own interests and skills. I didn't "shun" anyone, I just had to choose how to spend my limited time and energy after school. Would you rather talk with someone that responds to your ideas and thoughtfully considers them, or someone who brushes everything off just to come back to saying, "I'm bored" no matter how much you try to engage them? It's also strange to categorize what I said as a "rant." I was reminded of something from the past and I mentioned it in a comment that was along the same lines, remembering how I felt about it at the time. That's hardly a rant.