• kautau@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        Unironically it’s been done for thousands of years and is called meditation. Once you’ve washed the bowls, picked the crops, clothes are clean, floors are swept, you have to figure out how to make the most of just sitting down for awhile. Though being bored today I think is fighting the urge to do something when there are infinite things calling for your attention, which I guess is sort of a modern meditation in itself.

    • Zaros@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      I never really learned this skill. I can just lie down in bed all day doing nothing (apart from thinking), and not get bored. This trait is not very beneficial for productivity…

    • Damage@feddit.it
      8·
      4 months ago

      My solution is to go to a beach that takes an hike to reach. That way I don’t get bored, and when I’m there I actually want to lay down and rest.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    171·
    4 months ago

    Beach trips were lots of fun back when I was 10 and I enjoyed playing in the water with the other kids, but they’re not very interesting now that I’m an adult who doesn’t particularly like swimming. (I’d rather be somewhere air-conditioned.) At least I do swim - I don’t understand people who come to the beach without any intention of getting into the water.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      61·
      4 months ago

      Just had a weeklong beach vacation. We sat on the beach once for about half an hour before the sun was too much. We mostly just took morning and evening walks on the beach. We’re not really swimmers either, which was good because the surf was fucking lethal pretty much every day. Once day the waves were reaching the dunes and pooling past the high-tide line. Kids were constantly swimming and it was incredibly dangerous. I think most days were red flag and the “nice” ones were yellow.

      The beach is pretty awful these days and we aren’t even that far south.

    • Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br
      14·
      4 months ago

      Particularly, I don’t like beaches exactly for that. All of those, for me, are more pleasant in a cool weather. I don’t like sand nor heat.

      So I just don’t go to the Beach.

      I could stay HOURS in a cold place while looking to the trees in a distance. I’ve done it and felt amazing

  • ashok36@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 months ago

    Just wait a few minutes and some family will post up next to you, turn on their speaker playing terrible music, and immediately fuck off to the water leaving you to stew in their “best of alt country 2003-2007” Playlist.

  • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    4 months ago

    A fun beach trip requires three people at minimum. Seeing all of those couples “enjoying” their beach trips, stewing in a salty bath of denialism just makes me so sad. It’s like, accept your misery already.

    /j because this is lemmy

  • Slovene@feddit.nl
    51·
    4 months ago

    If you don’t bring Robinson Crusoe with you, are you even beaching right?

  • Raptor_007@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Nah, I love just sitting on the beach, letting the waves clear my mind. Just a calming, clear, thoughtless break from normal, hectic life. Man…been a while since I’ve been able to do that.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    When is was late teen to early twenties beach day was wonderful. I could catch up on a stack of books without any responsibilities.

    Now when I’m away from home, I only think of the responsibilities that are accumulating in my absence.