Frozen Heart, get Thorton Wilder's book, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" from the library and read it; it changed my life (still haunts me though I read it 30+ years ago).

Here's a good article on synchronicity: http://www.strangemag.com/mysteryofchance.html

If one can develop curiosity about people and things, life is almost always, or can become, interesting. I get bored but usually don't stay bored as me, myself and I :-) get to talking about little observations or ideas I get.

I'm left-handed. In college I noticed I had one shoelace that use to knot when I'd pull it, not the other. I did a survey of the others on my dorm floor, did their shoelaces knot when they untied them, were they left or right handed, had them tie my shoes for me (from the "back" and then from across from me and I did the same), trying to understand why that shoelace had problems (I didn't have a problem, the shoelace did :-) whether I tied it differently or what. Beats studying!

Staying interested, moment-to-moment in what's happening in and around me fights boredom for me and also makes me less lonely. I'm more apt to start conversations with store clerks, etc. and am too "busy" to remember I'm depressed, except in the middle of the night. . . (that's an ongoing project of the moment, how to combat the middle-of-the-night uglies).