Is Boredom Death's little sister? <ol><li>How are Death and Boredom related in Greek mythology? (Whenever I talk about personifications of death and boredom, I write them with capital letters)</li><li>What types of boredom exist? (according to the Deutschlandfunk article)</li><li>Why is boredom not always bad but also good and how to cope with boredom?</li></ol><ul><li>situational boredom: we are bored because we have to wait against our will or are bed-bound because we're ill</li><li>weary boredom: we find things we have to do boring, for instance certain job tasks</li><li>existential boredom (that's the Death's sibling): we are bored with ourselves, our lives seem empty and lack meaning, we suffer from Weltschmerz.</li><li>creative boredom: that's the only positive kind of boredom. It makes us creating new stuff, having new ideas, exploring new ways. Great things have been achieved because someone got bored initially. </li></ul><ul><li>embrace it and take the opportunity to relax your mind or to be creative</li><li>look deeper into the underlying reasons for being bored, maybe you do lack some greater purpose for your life.</li></ul>