I could not think of any advantages of being bored until I have read this article in Reader’s Digest issue last February.  My thoughts on boredom are for those people who do not have any plans or goals in life.  When boredom strikes, I feel like it is a waste of time being unproductive wherein laziness take over your mind and body. However, Johnson explained it like no other:

Lolling around in a state of restlessness is one of life’s greatest luxuries – one not available to creatures that spend all their time pursuing mere survival.  To be bored is stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one.  It is in these time that people often discover something new, whether it is an epiphany about a relationship or a new theory about the way the universe works.   – by Carolyn Johnson

Now, there is something positive of doing nothing. Enjoy the moment!