Let's face it, a lot of life is simply quite boring. We wake up every day, go to work, go home, make dinner, check the same three websites, do the dishes or the laundry (there are always dishes or laundry), then go to bed. Sure, there are plenty of things I'm missing out here, but the point is the monotony—if we don't want it to eat us alive, we have to have some tricks up our sleeve to keep things interesting. That is, of course, where the wonderful distraction of memes comes in. They may often be dealing with mundane topics, but they're also entertaining enough to make it seem like that is more than acceptable. Boredom can be banished with a simple scroll, or at the very least, it can be postponed. How great that we get to live in a time where such a thing is possible.