Boredom

Boredom

Boredom. Boredom is a skill that requires your mentality. Boredom is a mental battle between on nothing to do, or possibly, a limitless opportunity to do something that you want to do.

When you're bored, there's two ways to intercept it. Boredom is a time when there's nothing to do; though some see it as a place where there's something to do that they wouldn't have done if they weren't in such a desolate place.

Boredom isn't a skill that requires physical training, but rather requires mental training to your brain. By just thinking differently, it can change your whole perspective on boredom.

Take this as a challenge. Boredom can be a time for you to relax, be lazy, loosen yourself. But I challenge you to use this time to do something that you wouldn't have done. This'll make you more active and possibly more creative. I have a few instances where this mindset of boredom helped me on not being bored, but also strengthen my creativity and my friendship with my best friend.

During boring lessons, the teachers only pull up a movie or a show about the topic of the lesson. Me and my friend would find this super boring and sort of unbearable. To the point we would annoy our other friends by sneaking up to them like a ninja. Although this moment was different. I decided to pull out used paper I used to revise for my exams and made a plan with my friend. We decided to make a basketball hoop and scramble the paper into a ball shape and started to hoop and see who could get in the most. My friend decided to take it home and... he accidentally through it away into the trash.

The second moment where I put this mindset into my creativity was during science. We had a substitute and she just put up a show and we found it boring. Again, we pulled out scrapped paper and we created a football goal. We decided to use our fingers to flick our paper goals into each other goals. The teacher also saw this and found it creative and fun during the desolate times in class.

So, whenever you're in a situation where you're bored,

don't let boredom take control of you, let yourself take control of your boredom.