As the title of this Blog Post states… Boredom is not always bad. Yesterday was such a horrible boring day for me. But sometimes boredom is there because you need a downtime. Really. I did lay on my couch in the living room and did nothing. You did read right, nothing.
Sometimes it is just great to do nothing. Think about it. It can be a way to get new inspiration and new ideas. Maybe it is boring now, but maybe it´s like preparing for the next big idea you know? You do not always have to fight boredom. Maybe you just need this downtime… being thoughtless for some time to calm down. It can give you new energy and as said maybe new ideas. Sometimes we just think too much and our body says “Common, let me calm down now!”.
I would not always fight boredom. You don´t even have to find new ideas while you are bored to death. As said, try to lay down and calm down a bit. Think about nothing. Try it for a moment. Maybe this is what you need now. Just calm down for a while.
If you are bored, then I have another idea for you. I sometimes ask google for “Lolcats” or “Funny Memes”. Really, there are some funny Memes in the internet and they can kill your boredom at least for some minutes.
I like all that creativity in the internet. There are so many funny Memes out there. Really great photography and if the right text is added to the image, then you can laugh a lot. So this is just a short idea to kill boredom, but sometimes it helps. If you are bored now, then ask google for some funny memes and laugh.
If your cat is bored, you maybe need to become creative. Some cats do need more activity and some less. But they do still have a hunting instinct and you can use this fact. I noticed the more I play with my cat, the more she gets creative and imaginative to keep herself busy. So, I want to say the more you play with your cat the more she will find ideas to be busy even without your help in the future.
I met someone yesterday and we had some small talk. He several times repeated to say “Boring life”. He sounded with all his words so much pessimistic. I soon noticed he really think that his life is boring. I mean I can understand if someone is bored today because boredom is something which we all have sometimes. But to say that life is boring, is pretty wrong. I am one of the people who prefers to lay it on the line and wanted to talk with him more about the boring life. I asked if life is really boring or if he means that his life is just boring?
I wondered even more when he answered “What can you do everyday?”. He continued to say that life is boring because it´s like going to work, arrive at home after the work to watch tv. But I told him that this sounds like his daily routine is rather boring and that he needs a little bit more variety then to stop being bored with life. Life is not boring in my opinion. Some days can be bored yes but that the whole life is bored, that is simply wrong.
But I thought a bigger problem is that he does not know what to do apart from watching tv everyday in his free time. I asked him if he has no friends but he answered that he has some friends and they use the phone sometimes to talk about this and that and that it is not possible to meet them often because they live too far away. And I answered “Let´s face it… you do not have to stop friendship with them because they live too far away but you need friends in your city as well, otherwise your life will continue to be full of boredom”.
I said you need some friends who surround you. Because they often can inspire you to get new ideas and you can even discover new activities together. I clearly said that his life is boring due to the fact that he has no friends he could meet spontaneous and that this is already one reason why he has not much activities. Point. I do not want to say that everyone who thinks that the life is boring like hell has no friends. But in his case this was already the biggest reason which forces him to talk about a boring life. I told him that the solution is to go out and meet new people nevermind on which way. There are many ways how to do it like joining a soccer club, visiting events and so on and I do not wanted to go into detail. But there are enough ways to meet some new and additional friends.
Another thing is that he must think about other activities apart from watching tv. If I would watch tv everyday then I would clearly come to the point to say that life is boring, as well. Ok I must admit that it is very well for me to talk because I have a lot of hobbies apart from watching tv like playing guitar, blogging, photography, gaming and so to not get boredom at home. But apart from these home activities I have friends too who inspire me pretty much. We often have ideas.. sometimes too often. In my case it is even sometimes vice versa because I spend so much time with my friends that I do think that some other hobbies could come too short sometimes.
Ok I am lucky… and the guy I am talked to not. And I did not tell him all this because I wanted to boast. I simply wanted to tell him that there is no boring life and that it is just so that his life is boring at the moment due to too little variety. But he did accept my thinking and said that he agrees anyhow.
I really hoped that he thinks about it and that he finds ways to change the situation. Life is not boring because life is what you make out of it. With just one activity, your life will be indeed boring. If you are bored at home everyday, then you should think about it if it´s a good idea to be at home after work day in and out. In his case it was really too little activity and ideas and the fact that he does not know much people in the city.
So if you think life is boring, then you should maybe take a pen and paper and write down what your daily routine is. Write down all your hobbies and interests. If the paper will be still pretty much empty after two minutes, then you got your answer. There are too little interests and hobbies in your life. Life is not boring, your life is boring.
If you have no interests and hobbies, you will also have no activities. Then it is sure that you will die of boredom. What you need to do is find your interests and find based on these interests new hobbies. This will lead to more activity and even more creativity and for sure at the same time to a bigger circle of friends. Your interests will help you to socialize. And then it will be easy to kill the boredom. You simply can´t cure your boredom if you do not find your interests. Often there are reasons for boredom. Everyone who talks about a boring life, should think about it. There is no other way around it.
Is your job boring? You think your job bores you everyday? Well, if you really think you have a boring job, then you should ask yourself if you see this particular boredom as a pain. If it´s like a pain, then you should look for alternatives. I do not want to suggest you to give up the boring job immediately. But maybe you should start to look for alternative jobs soon as possible. You could keep your current boring job warm until you find a better one.
But before you do, you should also maybe try to find out why your job is so boring. If the tasks are not demanding, you could try to talk with the management of the company. Maybe you are just unchallenged with the current tasks and therefor bored. Not being challenged can cause boredom and dissatisfaction.
Monotonous work can lead to boredom as well. Maybe you need some alternation to cure the boredom. All that could be addressable. If your management is good, then you can work out solutions. If this is not possible then you should at least start to think about your abilities and if there are alternative jobs or company’s where you could use your untouched energy better.
Nobody knows what you want. You must ask yourself. If you think you have the most boring job, then there is indeed a problem. If my job is boring, then I must find out why. There are many people who think that they have the most boring job in the world. Some people find solutions, others simply do accept the situation and some never would. If my job is so boring, then it will automatically lengthen the time of a day. And for sure this can be a horror. Time will not go over because of the boring job. This can really be a pain.
This is why I mean the problem must be either discussed in the office or if nothing helps, you will need to start looking for alternative jobs.
Dissatisfaction over a long period can make you mad. You must listen to your feelings. Talking about it with friends or the family might be good too. It can be a good way to find new ideas and also good because you get more aware of your feelings if you talk with your loved ones about your problems.
Fact is… if your job bores you day in and out, then you will lose long-term motivation anyway. So, address this in the office or seek a new job.
Let’s face it. You found this blog here because you are punished with boredom. I know this feeling! And I know how to kill your boredom. Today we will overcome boredom with one simple question. The tediousness will disappear at least for ten or twenty minutes.
So, here is the homework. Take a pen and paper and write down all the seven days from monday to sunday. There should be still enough room to write something down next to each day. I know, the homework starts already pretty boring. But we will change this now and will give you some mind activity.
Here comes the truth. You will win twenty million dollar next monday. No? If you say no, then you are really bored. Can we please at least imagine for a moment that this will come true? Because here is the exercise:
Plan your seven days week from monday to sunday. And don´t forget… you are millionaire now. How would your week look like with twenty million dollar? What would you do with the money to overcome your current boredom? Write it down. Either on the paper or feel free to leave a comment here with your schedule of that imaginary week.
I am nosy what different people would do with that bunch of money. I hope this funny brain-teaser will be an interlude to the tedium for a moment. So, how would your week start and how would your week end?
Are you shocked about the photo above? You ask why I show you the photo? There is one reason! It´s a pirat painted with sugar on a kitchen tabletop. Painting with sugar? Right! I posted this great idea about how to overcome boredom, on my Photography Blog.
Let’s face it! You are probably bored now otherwise you would not have found the blog here. At least you would otherwise not read any sentence more. So why don´t you go to the kitchen to find the sugar and start painting? If your kitchen tabletop is clean, you can even put the sugar back into the box after painting. It´s not even a waste of sugar.
The pirat sugar painting above is something my mother created when she was bored. If my mother is bored, she usually looks around to find out if she can start fighting boredom with anything she finds in her surroundings. I noticed this very often. She is master in fighting the tediousness. And she is right. Our surroundings often offer so much. We maybe just need to come up with ideas what to do with the things around us.
You maybe laugh now. But this is already a good step to prevent the boredom from killing you. And anyway… laughing is healthy unless you laugh so hard that you gonna asphyxiate.
So, if you are still alive after reading this blogpost, here is my challenge for you. Go look if you find any safe fine-grained stuff like sugar or bird sand and start painting with your fingers. If you finished, then take a photo of it. And if you are interested, I could even publish your finished artwork on the blog here. I mean in case you want to show your artwork other people and in case you give me the rights to publish the image here. I am nosy if anybody will come up with some crazy or funny paintings!
To inspire you some more, here is another artwork of my mother… A fish painted in bird sand when she was bored…
Do you mean you can compete with my mother? Then show it! Do you mean this is a way to eleminate your boredom? Then hurry up and unleash the creativity to kill the boredom!
