Steemit Engagement Challenge - S6W2: "What Do You Do When You're Bored"

Hello dear steemians. This is my first challenge in this community and I am very happy to do it. I want to thank @bntcamelo for the invitation and also, I invite @marpa, @mireyalongart and @mavilan to join.

I would like to start by sharing a definition of boredom from Merriam-Webster dictionary:

The state of being weary and restless through lack of interest
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I have to be very honest: I do not get bored too frequently, I am a very active person (too intense, by telling the truth).I am always doing any activity during all day long. Since I was a child I tried to give time to the most important things for me, that is God and family, nowadays I do not have a job, so I have more time to do some things I had to postpone in the past, but let me tell you that I am still human so, any time I could be bored. I experienced that feeling some months ago when I was living alone, especially when cooking because I did not like to prepare food just for me so I got bored at cooking- eating time.

In my personal opinion, boredom could have many causes: maybe the person is overthinking about something she/he has to do and mind is like tired and lazy, so boredom appears .Another cause could be doing things always in the same way, I mean, there is not a variation in the manner in which someone performs an activity and also, if a person does not have interest in a topic, activity or situation, he or she will get bored if is persuaded to get involved in those items.

I want to share with you an anecdote about myself. I have been a teacher for twelve years, I love teaching but there was a time in which I had to teach what people at school told me to do; there were some topics I did not consider relevant or appropriate to the context, the age of students, their interests and needs. I lost motivation about teaching. I did not prepare my classes as joyfully as I used to do before and, for students, it was worse because they did not enjoy their classes and got bored easily, it was a complete mess. After some weeks I reflected about that situation and decided to change that by talking to the coordinator to allow me a little bit freedom to modify some topics and use other strategies to get students` attention, and let me tell you that it worked, thanks God. They started participating in classes and they were satisfied, of course it was a tough work starting for me because I had to auto-motivate and strive a little bit more to overcome that “gray period”

When I get bored I try to do some activities that allow me to focus in another thing completely different from what I am doing (or trying to do) in that moment, for example:
Walk: Going to any specific place, just walking to see what is happening around and breathing calmly.
Enjoy nature: I love to see birds in trees, butterflies in flowers, the clean and blue sky and any detail in nature. It gives me peace and remains me that God is in control of everything.
Do housework: As incredible as it could seem, housework takes me out of boredom. For me it is like exercising, it gives me new energies to continue.
Look at cartoons: By doing that my mind “flies” to another place. I do this when I need to fulfill something and boredom has done its work so my ideas do not flow. After a break watching some cartoons, I can restart with a “fresh mind”.

When you get bored try to do some of these activities (some of them could work for you and some others don’t, so, how could you know? Just trying!

Watch television (according to your preferences: movies, cartoons, sports, reality shows…)
Listen to music
Practice handicrafts
Go to a park or any outdoor place
Play sudokus, puzzles, wordscrambles or maybe table games like monopoly, bingo, ludo and some others
*Do exercise or practice any sport *

The most important thing, according to me, is to know ourselves: try to get involved in activities we like the most and from time to time, incorporate new ideas to avoid monotony. I think there is always something to get rid of boredom; the key is to find it.

I would like to finish this post with an interesting quote of philosopher Walter Benjamin:

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
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Thanks for your visit. Blessings to all of you.

To know more about me: @lopdel333