People always say that the day is meant for work and the night is meant for rest. There are a lot of theories to why this is so important but for someone like me I would have preferred my day to be my night and my night to be day. Why do I say this? Well, I’ve always said that I am nocturnal. It doesn’t matter how I decide to turn it around, I’ll always love to work at night time.
I don’t know what drives me to do most of my activity at that time but then that is when I get the zeal to do most of the things that I am able to do. It comes to a time where I want it to stop though. The thing is, I’d like to be able to work both day and night. I usually don’t like a scenario where I can only do a lot at night and do so little at day time.
Well I might not have an explanation to this but at the end of the day it all boils down to how I feel during the day time. During the day time I am mostly bored and no matter how I try to navigate round it, it’s only unfortunate that I’ve not found anything round it.
As much as we try our best to be productive all the time it happens that from time to time we are reminded of the fact that we are only human and it’s only normal that we take breaks. When we refuse to take breaks our body forces us to take breaks. This is when I think we sometime refer to it as being bored. When I am bored as most people will call it, I take it as my sign to take a really long nap. The thing is as much as I hate sleep I still need it to function properly. My body has a way of forcing me to take really long naps which I still feel is useless and I am trying to find a way round it.
For me, I think a 9 to 5 job is my biggest concern when it comes to being bored. Having a 9to 5 job will literally force you into changing your schedule and how you used to do a lot of things when you didn’t have that 9-5 jobs. I remember how I used to take a look at the chats all dawn waiting to get a signal. Now I can barely even read a chat.
I seem to have lost all this skills due to a simple 9-5 service that I am providing right now. Now the only way I can deal with boredom or should I say deal with boredom is by sleeping for long periods of time cause that is the only available option to me right now. When I am free then it means I’ve not gone to the place of service which means I am off which means I am tired.
Doing another activity would have been the ideal solution but then I won’t be able to concentrate since I will be tired and so bored.
At the end of the day, I think we all have different definitions of what boredom is. I am saying this cause boredom is really relative. I would have called boredom being burnt out but not a lot of people will consider that as being burnt out.
So is there really a coping mechanism to this or you wait for it to pass. Tell me how you deal with boredom.
Cover image is mine