Well there are several things that happen before boredom sets in on a person. First the person has probably done the important things in their day so that there is nothing left to look forward to, this or a person has a period during the day in which they don’t want to be wherever they are for whatever reason (vague I know). Next the person starts to think of things to do but they can’t and that’s when boredom starts to takeover their heads.

So for the first step in boredom’s assimilation of your mind, you begin to think of random things or nothing at all to a point where you just want to claw your own eyes out because it’d be a billion times more fun than just sitting there drooling all over yourself wondering what other people are doing (most people are doing the same thing as you though). This is a fun step and can actually lead to some profound thinking if you wait around long enough for it to pop up, too bad I can’t wait that long.

The next step can be known as the “bothering state” your wondering about what other people are doing finally manifests itself into actually asking other people what they’re doing to prove to yourself that either they’re as bored as you are, or that you could be doing something so completely awesome that you’d want to claw your eyes out anyway to keep your head from exploding of fun and awesome juices.

The third step is similar to the second however after you’re done trying to figure out whether people are more bored or less bored than you; you turn inward and try to find cool things that you can do on your own. Ultimately you fail or at least I do, but hey you gave it a try and at the minimum occupied about two minutes of your time so there’s two more minutes you don’t have to be completely bored. You can also come up with some interesting ideas in this stage too, but usually once you get to this stage you’re so bored that very few things will interest you at all.

The fourth step is the final one and pretty much when you give in to utter boredom. So instead of having your head explode from awesomeness while doing something fun and entertaining your head implodes upon itself because of the lack of desire to do anything at all. This stage is very much like a mental breakdown, self-realization, or depression from concluding that there is really nothing fun that you can do at this point in the day (well there probably is, but most likely by the time you realize something that you can do it’ll be too late to do it anyway). The best way to handle this state is probably to get some sleep and hope that you have the sickest dream ever to counter your 30 minutes – several hours of boredom. I’ve never gotten that dream but maybe you will!

These are just a rough layout of four main stages of boredom and there are definitely many sub-categories for each stage such as “channel surfing phase” or “trolling the Internet” which are just mindlessly hitting one button in search of something that’s not really there (aka some immensely cool television show, but you have no idea what it’s about or what channel it could be on).