Boredom, Or Do We Really Want That Chocolate?

What is boredom?  How do we know when we ate it is because we were actually only bored?  Is boredom disguising some other feeling? Is the urge to eat chocolate really helping the boredom? What can change that empty, restless, alone feeling—empty candy wrappers,  glaring at computer images, surfing the web—doesn’t really change that does it? Eating feels a little good, and yet, how much does it take to feel better?  Tight seams on the pants or top and tugging on the jeans zipper doesn’t add to more good feelings; or how about creating more distractions—isn’t that what we really thought we could do with the food ? Distract ourselves? What happens if we don’t attempt to distract and we simply sit with the feeling or the discomfort? What is the boredom covering up? Loneliness? Is the chocolate going to curtail the loneliness? The anger or the? Aren’t there better treatments? Can’t we eat and enjoy the chocolate for its own sake?  How about sitting with boredom? Can we let that be what it is?