Task 4

Personal Enquiry

Boredom is something we all experience most likely every living day of our lives, it’s what makes us twiddle our thumbs, stare into space and think about some of the most pointless and sometimes deepest thoughts. For example, how did the earth begin or why are we here? Or even I wonder if I could sneak into the bank and just pinch a few dollars. Some people see boredom as a common daily fear, people don’t want to be bore, and I believe there is even a name for someone that has a fear of being bored (thaasophobia!). It’s not just humans that get bored either; it’s just about every other animal as far as I know. Every time your cat or dog is scratching at something or chews away a piece of your nans old flowery sofa, it’s because they are bored. They have a need to be occupied or have something to do. Whether that’s chewing on a toy or playing fetch. “Playing” now there’s a word I would like to research into as well and I’m more than certain that it’s got a lot to do with boredom. But before we put too much on our plates let’s look at the first one. Boredom!

 You know that feeling when you have to go visit your Nan or sit and wait while your favourite soap comes on the telly, and you start looking around for things to do. Yup, you know what I’m talking about. Like I said before, some people are afraid of being bored, but I think it’s so important to be bored. You probably think “what the hell are you on about?” well think about it. When people get bored they tend to do things…different things, like discover new hiding places or new kinds of food or even meet new people! Boredom is what has helped mankind evolve from cave men. If we were just satisfied with throwing rocks at each other and running after our food then we would never have strived to create new things like spears to catch our food and sling shots to hit each other with.

Boredom has also help to create just about every game there is, ranging from your kiss chases in primary school to the Olympics. One day someone was bored and said I wonder how fast someone can run? Or I wonder how high someone can jump? So they made the Olympic GAMES!

Still not convinced? Are you getting abit bored of reading this? Well think about this, if there was no such thing as boredom I wouldn't be writing this as the course I am on is for creating games. People play games because they are bored, so if there is no such thing as boredom, then there would be no games which means no jobs to create games and all in all means that means there would be no education courses for a non-existent industry! See it plays a bigger part than what you think huh?