• Album
    1003·
    3 months ago

    People aren’t bored enough. It’s good for you.

    • Dabundis
      490·
      3 months ago

      Tolerating boredom is a skill worth developing

      • kautau
        190·
        3 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
      90·
      3 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…

    • TheFriar
      20·
      3 months ago

      This is actually one of the reasons I love the beach. I lie there, close my eyes, listen to the sounds around me, maybe drift off for a minute, maybe listen to music, read a few chapters of my book. My beach days are usually like 3hrs about, though. I have friends that like to go to the beach at 9a and stay until 6p. That’s too much for me

  • morphballganon
    625·
    3 months ago

    If you’re bored sitting on the beach, get up and play in the water. Or get intoxicated.

    • Damage
      150·
      3 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.

    • ArtificialLink
      30·
      3 months ago

      My personal favorite is doing acid at the beach. I guarantee you won’t be bored on that.

  • ashok36
    370·
    3 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.

    • ZombiFrancis
      190·
      3 months ago

      ♪ And a little bit of chicken fried Cold beer on a Friday night A pair of jeans that fit just right ♪

    • VelvetStorm
      40·
      3 months ago

      That or it’s mariachi music that can be good but only when I want to hear it.

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      How did you know exactly how my last 4 beach days went?

    • everett
      10·
      3 months ago

      Alt-country isn’t the term you’re looking for…

  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
    301·
    3 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.

    • NeatoEnglish
      111·
      3 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.

  • southsamurai
    280·
    3 months ago

    Relaxation is a skill that is harder to develop than it should be

    • The_Worst
      10·
      3 months ago3 months ago

      True but relaxation doesn’t mean doing nothing. It’s doing what you like to do at your own pace. I’m currently at carribeans and yet have to see a beach.

  • TheSpookiestUser
    263·
    3 months ago

    Bring a book or some headphones and knock out a podcast. Or drink, whatever works

  • GodnrocEnglish
    200·
    3 months ago

    Time to dig a fucking HUGE hole!

  • LordCrom
    90·
    3 months ago

    I would love to be bored on a beach.

  • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net
    80·
    3 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

  • jpreston2005
    91·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    My last beach vacation day went a lot like this. I got there, rented a lounge chair, carried the burdensome weight trudging through the shifting sand down to a suitable location away from anyone else. Unfolded said chair confusedly, it had a sun shade attachment that was supposed to, like, hover over your head, but mine kept slipping and just whamming me in the face. Including every time I tried to sit up, it’d get a nice whack to the forehead from the metal rod.

    I tried to read, but the blinding sun made the pages just a tad darker than it’s surface. It was so hot, that it took deliberate effort to calm myself to the point where I wasn’t just sweating, and panting the heat away.

    Took all of about an hour until I was officially “over it.”

    • Ibuthyr
      111·
      3 months ago

      That’s just bad preparation on your part. Bring a parasol, some cool beverages in an insulated bag, move closer to the water, take a dip in said water every once in a while. I fucking love beach days.

    • whoreticulture
      30·
      3 months ago

      Bro buy sunglasses 😭 this is hilarious to read but come on

    • JasonDJ
      20·
      3 months ago

      I’m enjoying beaches a lot more now that my kids are old enough to do their own thing.

      Playing with toddlers on the beach for hours is fun and all…but what’s really great is reclining in a chair, listening to a book, soaking in the sun with a couple of beers. While the kids play and get themselves exhausted.

  • Raptor_007
    50·
    3 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.

  • /home/pineapplelover
    40·
    3 months ago

    I dug a hole for hours when I was at the beach. Got a bunch of guys to join in too

    • Retrograde
      30·
      3 months ago3 months ago

      Best beach activity 100% - I would join in too

  • Slovene
    51·
    3 months ago

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

  • Katana314English
    40·
    3 months ago

    I don’t like Coors. It’s light, and it’s sandy, and it gets everywhere.