Boredom

Boredom is "an emotional state experienced when an individual is without any work or is not interested in their surroundings". A lack of work and interest a sign of a lack of love. Therefor boredom is a sign of a lack of love. Boredom is the absence of love in the present the way fear is the projection of the lack of love to the future. Boredom is the present tense of "the absence of love"