Very interesting people usually are not bored.

Sweet Mother, why do men take pleasure in making a

lot of noise?

In making a noise? Because they like to deaden themselves. In

silence they have to face their own difficulties, they are in front

of themselves, and usually they don’t like that. In the noise they

forget everything, they become stupefied. So they are happy.

Constantly man rushes into external action in order not to

have time to observe himself and how he lives. For him this is

expressed by the desire to escape from boredom. Indeed, for

some people it is much more tiresome to remain quiet—seated,

or to be still. So for them it represents an escape from boredom:

to make a lot of noise, to commit many stupidities, and become

terribly restless; it is their way of escaping boredom. And when

they sit quietly and look at themselves, they are bored. Perhaps

because they are boring. That’s very likely. The more boring one

is, the more one is bored. Very interesting people usually are not

bored.