Bored to death. Life feels pointless.

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I'm so bored with life it hurts. I go to work, come home, go to work, come home. Is his how the average person spends their life? Is doing this the purpose of life?

I should socialise or something but I don't have the energy.

I'm bored at work and I'm bored when I'm not at work. I don't even feel sad anymore. I just feel numb. Maybe I'll feel this way for the next sixty years and then pass in my sleep, having achieved nothing but fifty years of being an anonymous desk jockey, to be remembered by no one.

Is this how the average life is lived? Am I like everyone else in that regard? Am I missing out on the purpose of life? Or maybe life just doesn't have a purpose in which case I'm not really missing out on anything. Is there anyway I can give my life meaning? Or at least feel less bored? Something that doesn't require me to spend too much energy?

I know life seems boring and mundane at times.

But at least we have the Internet. We might not be able to go to certain places---but at least we can see pictures of them.

What most people do, it seems to me, is "do it yourself" type projects in their homes. If you're handy that way, you could become less bored by fixing what's broke.

I am not that way---so what I do: Watch old TV shows. Watch old sporting events. Listen to peoples' accounts of going to places like Nigeria. etc. All on YouTube.

This is what "life" is. I don't really get how some people cope. I think there must not be much going on inside their heads to not become depressed. Most people are kind of like robots. They don't get bored. I'd probably just kill myself if I had to work full time. It is a waste of precious time.

what about playing chess. that would work surely. you only require a game to play, i have a small pocket size game that is electronic. it is one of my favourite things. you can get a book to read and learn from. this is relaxing , doesn't require any real physical energy. i would recommend this.

Some days I'm happy to read random things on the internet. Today it just seems boring and pointless.

I should probably do something more interesting but I never have any energy after I get home from work. Even though every evening I get eight or so hours of free time, by that point I've already exhausted my energy so I can't usually do much but sit in a chair and read crap. I don't even have enough energy to play video games.That's a relief. Holidays annoy me so much. Monuments are always less spectacular when you see them in real life. Getting their is always a pain. And the money? How can people criticise me for buying this or that when they spend thousands and thousands of dollars to fly across the ocean just so they can look at some old buildings in Europe or so they can lie on a foreign beach when they already live near a beach.

Some of the hipsters I know seem to get more enjoyment from boasting about the places they've been (at great expense) than they did from actually going there. That's why they take selfies. When I go somewhere I take pictures of things. When they go somewhere the things form the background of their selfies. The main intended product of their expensive holiday is to produce a selfie with Saint Basil's Cathedral in the background.I probably shouldn't do that because I rent.

If I spend five of six years living in enforced aestheticism I might be able to save enough for the down-payment on an apartment so I could make some banker rich as I spend 25 years paying $600,000 for a $250,000 apartment. I could spend that time paying slightly less than I do in rent (unless the interest rates change, interest rates are low, leading to high prices and real estate bubble but they could get higher, leading to low prices but a higher total cost of paying the mortgage, except for some poor sap who bought a place just before the bubble burst).

I could join the ranks of cashed up bogans who boast about owning their own home when really the bank owns their home for the next 25 years. Who wouldn't want a half million dollar debt with compound interest? Fun fact, for the year, more than 90% of the payment is interest.

I could buy a house and embrace the cultural cringe as I barbecue in the backyard while wearing a flannelette shirt and a beanie and drink beer until I get diabetes. I could spend my weekends maintaining an unnecessary garden. Or I could buy an apartment so that even after I've paid off my mortgage at age 60, I still have to hundreds of dollars per month in building fees.

The most important goal in life, is to own your own home (according to mortgage brokers). Those cashed up bogans who boast about homeownership are unwitting, walking talking advertisements for a bank. They've fallen prey to the bank's memetic engineering.C'est la vie I knew it Products of a school system designed to teach kids to be obedient without question, to be content doing repetitive tasks all day and that all authority figures are trustworthy.

So the good little students can become good little worker drones as they make the shareholders rich then they can go to the mall and be good little consumer drones as they buy what the TV tells them to. Spending disposable income on disposable goods i.e. buying gadgets with planned obsolescence.I've requested longer hours. My longer day begins next week. The reason is because while my job is boring, it's less boring than being at home.

Which is a bigger waste of life? Sitting in an office all day or sitting at home all day? Every activity I can think of is somehow a waste of time. I'm wasting my life because I can't find purpose in life.

Now you'll make more money, and you'll probably get better at your job, too.

All of this is not pointless. And it's much better than being on the Dole.

I guess I lead sort of a boring life LOL...But I happen to like watching YouTube videos of people driving on highways in Cameroon, Africa. The scenery is beautiful

I'd love to make more money but with longer hours I'll no longer qualify for welfare. I'll get paid an additional $900 per month and lose roughly $900 per month in welfare. In other words I'll have the same amount of money

There's something symbolic about not relying on welfare at all, in my opinion.

I understand the stuff about "we pay taxes for it" and all that.

But I still find you being self-reliant will benefit you, in the long run.

@retrogamer87 - you read as completely sane to me.

It's Bank Holiday in the mother country, and time drips extra slow.

You might, actually, have LESS money, as you weren't paying taxes on the welfare, and WILL be, on your salary.

I'm sorry you're feeling so down----I know how sucky life, can be.....

I tend to agree on the holiday thing, but I decided to visit a friend from college in his homecountry, china, earlier this year. We went hiking in those moutains that inspired avatar.
Then he had to get back to work and I was alone in beijing, in freezing february.

I spent the remaining days just walking through beijing, visiting the occasional museum or temple here and there.

And I don't regret it. You see, I never understood beach holidays either. I live in europe, where most people travel to some otger european country for holiday, which is.. Boring. They're all so similar.
But travelling to asia (except japan... Japan is exactly as you'd expect it, which made it a bit boring, really) has always been amazing for me. But I do get off a bit on art history and architecture.

Actually, I take back what I said about japan. The architecture of tokyo is just madness.

Anyway. India and china are rather cheap, japan not so much. And they are utterly foreign. Don't go to a french beach, if you don't want to- lose your way in an industrial area of shanghai in winter, if that's more your style.