I've been considering what I ought to expect out of people lately. While the more nuanced answers aren't clear to me yet, one thing I think we should stop expecting, is to be entertained. To have our boredom addressed.
Thinking about it; the desire to be entertained by people we are intimately involved with (as merely friends or more) establishes this strange dynamic where it may be necessary to censor or alter one's actions or feelings in order to appease our own boredom. When framed this way, it seems almost psychotic. Yet it is often demanded that people be fun to be around, without considering such implications. It very subtly reduces individuals to spectacle, where the value of a person is somewhat tied to their ability to distract us from our own malaise.
I'm aware that the hope is that you and the people you are involved with naturally mesh together in such a way that produces fun, but we all know that this is often not the case. And it seems to become even less so the more time you spend with a person. After all, a main aspect of fun lies in novelty.
I think this has revealed a more general truth to me. And that is: Boredom is a symptom of not being able to live adequately with yourself.
