I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
I cannot abide being bored.
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!
I am terrified of being bored.
I am most scared of being bored
I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.
Work is making a living out of being bored.
I will risk everything to avoid being bored.
. . . he preferred being stimulated to being bored.