I see your point, Flybye, and I agree that one should try to understand honestly the feelings one has. But to my ears there's a huge difference in the attitude between being unhappy or unsatisfied (but being able or willing to do something about it) and being bored, which implies that that's the way things are and you can't even be bothered to do something about it. I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into that word. I have the feeling my mother went ballistic when I said I was bored as a child and it's stuck