When a Good Life Gets Boring

Feeling saturated with life is inevitable. You are bound to feel cramped and bored with everything you do repeatedly. Like monkeys, we are wired to seek novelty, and we constantly attempt to find it in the world around us. Almost anything you do repeatedly is eventually bound to make you less grateful for the reward. A good relationship feels boring after a while. A session at the gym feels boring. Sitting down at a blank page to write every day feels boring. But this saturation does not mean that something is wrong. In fact, if these things feel boring, it can be a sign that they are functioning exactly as they should. They produce results whose effects are felt over the long term. Anything you do with consistency will eventually feel boring. And so it is natural to look outward, to seek novelty. We assume nothing will break down, that nothing can go wrong if we mess around. It can be a rude awakening when we realise that, when these things do break down, the consequences can be…