Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty — his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

~ Aldous Huxley

Is boredom a message from the Universe that you are wasting your time?

Is it a message from the Universe telling you that you need to rest or take a break?

Does it mean you know what you are doing—you have mastered your life?

Is it because you lack stimulation or need to do something different?

Is it a choice?

Is it something we all need to experience to grow and learn about ourselves?

Is it a fear of self?

Is it the absence of an interesting perspective?

Is it the result of or a manifestation of frustration?

Is it stagnation of energy or maybe energy that needs to find a home or place to be unleashed?

Is it reality or truth in the ascension process—as our earthly beings in this human existence struggle with the paradox of being physically here but wanting to be or transcending to being untethered from the emotional aspects of the physicality of this existence?

Or is it as the quote by Aldous Huxley states a symbol of liberty? 

I know this is quite a set of questions on the topic of boredom, and I hope thought provoking. More and more I see a growing population experiencing this emotion or state of being and who may struggle with what it means and why they are bored.

We are conditioned that boredom does not feel good, and has a negative connotation. It’s physically and mentally uncomfortable as we consider the source of our boredom. And there in may lie the key—why are we compelled to determine the source, the trigger, etc., as somehow if we unearth the source we can do something about it. We can make change, make it better or even make it go away.

For some, in our efforts to deal with our boredom we may make what we interpret or think of as “bad” decisions or do things we think we may not have done if we were not bored. But are these not simply the journey—stepping stones or spring boards to evolving ourselves? Why do we find it so difficult to embrace or accept our boredom and even have a desire to fight it?

It may come to some of the concepts referenced in the questions in the list above. It may be as we go through our cycles of growth and hit milestones, we may have mastered certain things or experiences and it may be a sign for a change—more so a change that is impending and regardless of what we do or not do that change will come. It is a symptom of the ascension process as we become enlightened and vibrate at higher levels in a current physical space that is changing but our fellow humans are at different levels in the process—sort of in between dimensions. It may simply be a symbol of liberty as our soul prepares to move forward in fulfilling its purpose.

So what is being bored? It is not just “the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest.”

It is more. And I ask you to contemplate your boredom and consider the possibilities.

Ever since I was very young when I became conscious of living and recognized that there was a whole, big world out there filled with all sorts of different places and people, I have been fascinated by the individual or personal human experience. I was intrigued by the expanses of space and geography and how I could be having my very own personal experiences and everyone else in the world was having theirs–at essentially the same time. I was perplexed on how there were billions of people doing things, saying things, etc., and I was not part of them… not there to see it, hear it or feel it.

I used to try to imagine what it would be like to truly experience what someone else was experiencing. I wondered what it would be like to see the world through others’ eyes, and how I could somehow transpose myself into someone else’s body to see what it was like to be someone else or know at any given time not only what someone else was doing, but was part of their experience.

Maybe social media serves as that “transporter” for now and gets us closer but this still is, in a sense, one dimensional or only bi-directional. We may be able to share or be in real time and space connected through some digital interface, but not quite able to have an inter-person experience–where we experience someone’s feelings and really know what it is like to be that other person, to be in that other place, etc. This is sort of the ultimate real experience of walking in someone else’s shoes. This poses an interesting question. Are we are ever meant to have that type of experience. Maybe not. You only need your own looking glass. 

I think fairly early on in my life I realized that each one of us is indescribably unique and we are not meant to be somewhere else, be someone else or have someone else’s experiences while in this physical space. We are who we are and where we are at any given moment for a reason.

Regardless of where you are or who you are with, your experiences–what you feel, how you interpret what you see or what you hear–are explicitly and authentically yours. No one can have them or replicate them just as you cannot have or replicate someone else’s experiences. There is something special about that, almost sacred.

Really no one else in the entire world can feel exactly what you feel. No one else can do what you do, think like you think or express themselves like you. This is amazing, perplexing and intriguing all rolled up together… and maybe meant to be.

Each one of us is a unique being experiencing the journey of our lives. It’s this uniqueness and individualism that contributes to the diversity of our world and how we enrich each others lives. I don’t think we should underestimate the importance and value of this. So as fascinating as it is to think what it would be like to be someone else, to see through their eyes, feel their emotions, to be in their consciousness, we should contemplate if would we want someone in ours.