Originally Posted by
Steely 
He looked at me quizzically and said, "you don't have to be bored Mum, you can just sit in the gutter and crumble up a leaf."
Your son has the key and the right attitude! Whenever I get bored, it is because I want the world to come to me and entertain me because I am entitled dammit.
The world doesn't come to me, it is already there, I just need to embrace one of the many opportunities it offers for entertainment because there are a myriad of them. It can be as simple as watching an ant, to the more complex such as pondering Einstein's theory of relativity. I usually lean more to watching an ant, but the bottom line either way is for me to come to the world.