I get bored very easily.

It may be because I have noth­ing to do; or I’ve lost inter­est in what I was doing for some rea­son — it being too repet­i­tive, etc.; I have too lit­tle to do; what I’m work­ing on doesn’t seem to have any appar­ent pur­pose; or even if only some senses are occu­pied and oth­ers left alone.

I try to get over this foible of mine by lis­ten­ing to music — hence the head­phones hang­ing around my neck or on my ear, 24 by 7 by 4 by 12 by ~20. At least, by keep­ing my ears occu­pied I can relax, and pos­si­bly not get bored. This has also resulted in my hav­ing a 70GB music + video col­lec­tion on my iPod.

But I digress.

I have come to real­ize that if I did not get bored so eas­ily — I would have achieved less than half of what I have today. There would be no rea­son for me to tread on the fine line of just enough work to do; I could have relaxed a bit more — and per­haps enjoyed a bit less.

On the other hand, I have aban­doned cer­tain projects because I found out that they were no-where near as chal­leng­ing as I’d imag­ined and hoped for, and were rather achiev­able — and no longer inter­est­ing; because I no longer believed that the work I was doing served any purpose.

What pushes me — and also stops me from work­ing — is my char­ac­ter­is­tic of get­ting bored so quickly. Para­dox­i­cally, it makes me give up and move ahead at the same time.

And ever since I’ve had more to do — or more that I want to do — I lose my patience with other things even more quickly. I can no longer com­fort­ably watch a film in a cin­ema hall — my hands are unoc­cu­pied, and depend­ing on the film — per­haps even my brain.

Doing only one thing at a time is pos­si­ble only if it is inter­est­ing enough to merit my full con­cen­tra­tion. Hence the rabid multi-tasking — read­ing a book with lunch while lis­ten­ing to music or maybe watch­ing tele­vi­sion. Cod­ing while watch­ing a film or hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion. Social Net­work­ing while read­ing a comic. etc. etc.

What about you?