Boredom...

[The Magic Pudding]

I bore myself to sleep at night
I bore myself in broad daylight

'Cause I'm bored
Just another slimy bore
I'm free to bore my well-bought friends
And spend my cash until the end
'Cause I'm bored
I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board

The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852

I didn't know that factoid, it's free, no charge.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom

Boredom also plays a role in existentialist thought. In contexts where one is confined, spatially or otherwise, boredom may be met with various religious activities, not because religion would want to associate itself with tedium, but rather, partly because boredom may be taken as the essential human condition, to which God, wisdom, or morality are the ultimate answers. Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer.

Essential human condition?
Dogs get bored, elephants get bored.
Arrogant humans.