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Originally Posted by divine1966
Why are you comparing boredom and loneliness? It’s kind of like apples and oranges.
Boredom isn’t sad. Being bored is sitting at a staff meeting having to listen to some irrelevant presentation and not being allowed to leave. It’s not sad, just annoying.
Loneliness is a sad feeling. Example of loneliness is losing one’s spouse and being in empty house longing for his presence (I’ve never lost a spouse but my daughter is a widow and I remember first year after my son in law she used to say she felt loneliness, snd certainly wasn’t bored or isolated, she is a social butterfly)
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I'm comparing them because I can't see the difference either in myself or in how most people describe the feelings.
For example, I get bored a lot. It makes me sad and irritated. I want to talk with nice people about interesting things, share jokes and compliments, play games. I find engaging with people like that for a bit fun. Many would tell me wanting to be with people socially like that is loneliness, but if so it seems that loneliness is just another word for 'boredom that can be alleviated with people', and nothing more.