I am bored. What should I do?
Life has drastically changed these days with all the Coronavirus situation. Confusion, instability, boredom, insecurity came into our lives.
We no longer know what the future will bring us (certainly we never did, but we still used to know some things were guaranteed, like going outside without restrictions, for example).
In today’s current world situation, we can only hope to find the light at the end of the tunnel, because boredom has certainly come to stay, as we sit our butts in front of the tv with nothing to watch on Netflix and thinking what should we do.
Fun unrelated fact: because I was bored, I discovered that the word «corona» means «crown» in Russian. And it is pronounced the same way as in English. Also, did you know that «corona» resembles «coroa» (just drop the “n”) which means «crown» in Portuguese?
So, what can you do when you’re feeling bored?
You’re tired of looking at the same walls every day. I understand.
So I have a suggestion: you mind as well just accept your boredom and do something great with it.
What should you do when you are bored then?
Direct your attention for the great opportunity of time we’ve all been given!
I see a lot of people not using their time to their advantages.
All I see now is people trying to deal with the isolation, the boredom, the fear, and the loneliness of being at home alone. Ok, I get it. Everyone is bored. Of course. But we can also use these bored days in our favour. So we can later look back and not feel guilty for not taking the chance we have now with all the free time available.
It’s all very sad and boring now, but let’s travel back in time for just a few weeks before the quarantine.
Let’s remember the time when we came home after work or school, at the end of our busy day, when we were tired and sad that we would need to wait on for Saturday to be able to work on that personal project, or start working towards a new goal, or start ready more books. You name it!
The one thing you so wished for, is right here – time.
“Oh, but if only I had the time!” – well, now you have!
You now have the chance to do all the things you wanted to do at home! Isn’t this amazing?
Introspection vs Constant movement
If you stumbled across my article, you’re probably instrospecting more than the average person. Which is the first step to embrace a new life goal, a new strategy and route for the years to come.
As we are all forced to be at home now, we should take a look around and consider who are we, what are we doing with our lives, and how we want to live for the next years ahead.
Propel your boredom!
You can propel your bored feelings and change your life, changing your habits, your relationships, your career, your course of life, you name it. Changing whatever is dragging you down and what is making you unhappy.
Boredom is actually your friend, so think about what is bothering you right now.
Everybody Forgot What It Feels Like To Be Bored
I think people forgot how it was to feel bored. Because when you are bored, after feeling stuck and hopeless and energy-less, you begin to think about creative ways of solving your boredom, trying to figure out a way to get away.
You start to look for new things to do, besides the usual TV-Netflix-gaming-music bundle we oh so love.
Imagine being alive in some other century that came before us, without all this entertainment available! Imagine what it was like to feel bored back then.
Let’s face it, we all got used to having so much going on every day that now we can’t be in silence with our heads – the main reason is that we numb those thoughts all the time, only allowing them to come up when sitting in our black rooms preparing to sleep.
That’s the only time of the day that we get to face our thoughts and deep worries, constantly coming in.
This Is The Time Of Our Lives, quit the rat race
People are not in a rush anymore. Think with me. Retrospect. What were your wishes a few months back? What did you wish to do but never did (of course, exclude anything social)?
This is the time of our lives; everyone has this opportunity!
This is the time to bring your life together, think about your priorities, re-think your path these past months or years, think about what you are doing with your life.
It’s the million-dollar question!
Are you happy with your life? Do you feel satisfied with what you’ve accomplished?
Now is the time to reflect on what you’ve achieved to this day and analyse if you’re happy and content with it.
No running. No hiding. You can either be your friend or your enemy.
Don’t stick your head in the sand.
We Are Facing Ourselves Now
I urge everyone to understand how great this time is for self-improvement as a person, as an individual, as thinking and introspecting humans that we can all be (but forget).
The world is now in a slow-paced movement, really slow. We are not in a rush anymore. There are no places to be and people to see. Everyone is with themselves now. Facing our fears and dramas. People are their own enemies if they let things be as they’ve always been.
Re-think over your life goals
Use this time you have to self-reflect. What have you established to yourself as being the most important thing to pursue?
- Is it being rich? How do you plan on achieving that? Are you sure you want to be rich?
- Is it to help others? How are you doing that already and how can you continue doing that?
- Is it to be famous? How are you going to achieve it? What skills are you good at to rise above the millions of others?
- Is it to change your career or job? Some doable steps are to find out what you are good at in the least, and try improving those skills online for free with coursera courses.
Wouldn’t it be so amazing if everybody would just introspect?
That way there wouldn’t be so many people that later will say “Why didn’t I think about this before?”, “Why didn’t I quit my job and did what I truly enjoyed doing?”, “Why did I put up with this abusive person for so long?”, “Why do I even talk to these people if they’re not my true friends?”, “I made this decision without actually thinking straight”.
Because now no one has to deal with people or needs to be going somewhere they don’t really want to go.
If we all take a deep breath and think solely with our heads and according to our own desires and needs, we can accomplish so much more!
Stay healthy and curious!
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