Boredom: my unwelcome companion

Being bored is part of every human life because there will definitely be a time when someone doesn't feel like doing anything, and that will cause boredom.

There are a lot of things that cause boredom, which we can't avoid unless we are fighting against it. Even after fighting against it, some will end up being bored, which I am not excluded from.

I do get bored easily. Before, I did think that I was only being lazy, but then I discovered that my mood was not stable, which always caused boredom for me.

The first thing that makes me bored is when I don't have anything to do at work and home as well. There are some months when sales are always down, so no matter how hard I fight to be active, I will end up being bored since there is nothing to do, and boredom always makes me have writer's block sometimes.

Screenshot from my phone

When I say I have nothing to do, it means there is no work in the shop, and I have run out of ideas of what to write, so I am left with nothing but boredom. But then I have so many ways of dealing with such a situation whenever I find myself in it.

I do think of what I shouldn't think whenever I am bored, so I don't bother thinking or sleeping because if I try to sleep, my brain will never sleep, and that will add more to the boredom by the time I wake up.

The first thing I do to deal with boredom is a thorough cleaning of the house. I clean every day, but not every part of the house, like the store, and rearrange my wardrobe, so I would include those to kill the boredom in my body.

After that and I still don't feel better, I will proceed to playing games. Let me just say boredom makes me have lots of games on my phone because I wouldn't want to overthink, so the best thing to do is to keep myself and my brain busy just to deal with the boredom.

I also have so many screenshots of movies I would love to watch, so once I get tired of playing games, I will download some of them and watch them until I fall asleep.

Screenshot from my phone

One thing about me, whenever I am bored is that my brain needs to be occupied; if not, I might start thinking of what I have been trying to get done some years ago, which would make me bored and sad, so stressing myself out and then falling asleep is the only thing that works for me whenever I am bored.

Someone once told me to listen to music whenever I am bored, and I got a headphone and also an earpiece. I downloaded so much music, and after trying to listen to music countless times when I am bored, it gets worse instead of getting better because music carries so many emotions, which affect my mood even when I am not bored, so music could switch my mood, so music doesn't work for me whenever I am bored.

Then I realized that what works for me might not work for others in terms of boredom because we all react to things differently.