Boredom is a byproduct of modern social alienation.

One is simply not interested in anything around. Nothing available or immediately approachable excites him. He starts getting bored, and with the passage of time this boredom starts encompassing increasingly more situations, and the phenomenon becomes persistent.

Ultimately, the persistence of boredom turns into a personality trait, making the person incapable of enjoyment at all. Life becomes prosaic.

Boredom always springs out of a pattern of selection and rejection. Selection is rare. Rejection is predominant. Compassion is an exception. Alienation is a rule. One likes only a few things and dislikes many.

Boredom can be attacked at the very point where it has sprung out from. Why does one like a thing and dislike another? Why does one identify with a few things and feels alienated from the most?

This is because our social system has made us so much self-centered and material oriented that we live in our secluded personal islands and identify with a very few persons and activities emotionally. Estrangement gives birth to boredom.

Watch out! Being bored is as good as being dead!