When Boredom Became My Worst Decision-Maker

This thing called boredom can make someone do a lot of things. Even as harmless as it sounds, it can flood someone's mind with different thoughts that might look very harmless at first, but it is filled with a lot of bad intentions after it has been done. I have been involved in a situation like that before, but I will share one or two from my experience.

My own boredom experience started one night like that in my room while I was still in school, but I was feeling bored that day as the weather was a bit cold and refreshing and my phone was stirring at me also.

That very day, boredom pushed me to do what I would not have done on a normal day. I picked up the phone, and I started scrolling through my WhatsApp friend list like I was searching for lost money. I saw names of people I have no business with, a lot of people that I spoke to a long time ago, and this ex of mine that I should have allowed to be resting and maintain the way we usually view each other's status even though we went our ways on a good terms, no bad blood.

Just a single “hello over there” turned into an unending conversation that kept us awake all night long like we were writing the book of epistles. Old conversations that I had already forgotten started to come up. We talked about old conversations like they were new, and we argued, reopening wounds that had healed already. And to be honest, that moment and the entire conversation made me realize getting bored can make someone do things that even God has been protecting you from, but self will will not allow.

And some time ago, too, boredom made me cut an unusual hairstyle. I did not plan for it, but instead of waiting for my barber, who has not been around, I decided to barb my hair myself, and from me wanting to barb a low cut, I ended up barbing a last skin that I had no choice but to use oil to rub it to grow faster.

But that was then, by the way, because by now, I have gotten over getting bored easily because if boredom wants to start to set in, I usually use those periods to do other productive things like read, go through my architectural designs, engage in meaningful conversations with friends, rest my mind, cook, or even write my Hive post because I definitely know that by the time I am done with some of those things, I will be less bored and the attention will have shifted rather than engaging in a conversation that almost made me tell my ex to come back.

And another thing that I have realized is that a lot of these things that we usually blame are not the enemies, for instance, boredom. I can either decide to let it take advantage of me or just walk away if I do not give in our mind.

So yes, technically it has led a lot of people to do things that ended up well or turned out bad. But it has also taught me to always maintain my lane and not allow the gunpowder to blow in my face.

Thank you for reading.

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