You don’t. Unless your job is to entertain this person otherwise it’s his/hers problem. If by any chance this this person is putting the responsibility of his/hers emotional state on your shoulders and asking you to do something, it’s not ok and is an attempt of manipulation.
Or a cry for help because the person only knows this way to ask for that kind of help.
A continuous boredom is actually more like a feeling of emptynes and a lack of energy to engage. You cannot help someone fill the emotional emptiness they are feeling, you don’t even know the cause. And it leads only to codependency.
Even if it’s a cry for help you can show them your perspective but it’s their job to heal and get out of the “pit” they are into.
There is two things to do
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find something they enjoy and ask if they want to do it
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realize they were never gonna do #1 no matter how interesting it might be. And now you know why they’re always bored
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Harvey Danger told me that if you’re bored then you’re boring. So you need to tell them to go do something instead of complain about it. Some people need to be pushed out of their comfort zone to snap out of boredom
The agony and irony is killing me
Expose them to a range of hobbies.
My mom always said, “if you kids don’t have anything you want to do, I have plenty of things I want you to do.” So give them some chores. If they’re gonna be unhappy they can at least be accomplishing something that needs doing. If they hate it enough, they will suddenly think of something they’d rather do, and will enjoy it more because of the alternative. If they stop bringing this problem to you, so much the better.
Give them something creative to do. Boredom is the mother of creativity.
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It’s good to be bored, so they can think over things like bad life decissoons, why they are bored and why they think somebody else needs to entertain them instead of fjndjng something to do. (Or why they should do anything anyway)
There’s nothing wrong with doing nothing for a while.
When someone tells me they are bored, I say: “Only boring people are bored.” That usually stops them in their tracks to contemplate.
