Boredom
I hate being bored.
I’ve read some articles, seen some YouTube videos, about how we should learn to be bored again; how our phones always keep us busy, and boredom is actually a good thing, and how it’s the source of creativity and new ideas.
But I hate being bored and I’m not very good at it.
When I’m bored, I might watch something as a distraction. I might read something or scroll my Facebook feed (though starting to follow blogs and sites with an RSS feed and almost abandoning the Facebook feed feels a bit better). I might end up doing a short chore around the house, but this doesn’t happen enough. My distractions are not very satisfying in the end.
I feel like I should have more creative hobbies and more social outputs. For example, when I actually work on a computer game, it’s a much more satisfying way of spending my time. But I don’t always have ideas for what to do, or the mood or the energy to do the ideas I do have. This means I end up - again - bored or distracting myself in ways that make me feel bad about them afterwards.
Another distraction that should make me feel good, and that I should do for health reasons anyway, are sports. But this is hard and problematic for me, so it doesn’t happen. i might write more about this in a separate post.
How do you handle boredom? How do you fill your free time?
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