Things to do when you are Bored at Home
We know home is the most secure place for us. We feel safe, relaxed, cared and loved in our home. Actually it is because of the people that we have in our home they make us feel like this. So to have good time at home it is possible when we have good environment and people around us that make us feel this way. Otherwise our home can become a place of our boredom or depression and loneliness.
Feeling bored is generally known as ‘nothing to do or being idle’. It is a state of mind when you have nothing to do or you are not interested in what is going on around you. Sometimes we are bored because of loneliness and it could also lead us into mental or physical disorders. But being bored can also be good, you can be motivated from it to do more creative work and look for new tasks and you get more time to figure out things.
Boredom is a normal part of our life, every one of us face this state of boredom in his life. A search about boredom shows that adults in U.S on average spends 131 days of boredom in a year. So it almost makes the third part of a year getting bored.
Mostly younger generation face this issue. As world has developed so the chances of boredom also increased with it. In past life of people was different their way to live was different then us.
They use to keep themselves busy in different actions, and in past usually took long time to complete as compared to now. But now in the era of technology we have easy access to everything so the tasks are more feasible and quick to do.
At home we face boredom sometime because of our lack of attention or we have nothing to do. There could be many reason to it. Like in the period of pandemic recently we all faced it a lot. What actually happened that in this period almost whole world was in lock-down. And we were bound to stay home so many issues emerged that effected our daily life style.
Bound to Stay home actually changed our routine and it was not a pleasant experience. We didn’t have enough things to do at home to keep our-self busy and we felt empty and bored often. It also affected our mental health.
Boredom could be because of doing a thing many times makes us to lose our interest in it and we cannot pay enough attention to it that also makes us feel bored. It could be more problematic for person who has issue with paying attention toward his tasks.
People who have self-awareness are likely to face boredom less than the people who don’t have self-awareness.
They don’t know how to handle the situation that can lead them toward boredom.
If we try to look for new things and try to find new means and look from a different angle. Urge to learn new things or excitement can also make us help deal with boredom.
To overcome this problem of boredom, is to start from realizing it and then looking for appropriate ways to deal with it. There are a lot of activities we have now that could help us to deal with boredom.
I will discuss some of the actions or activities that you can follow to deal with your boredom problem.
Fun activities, let’s start from a list of fun activities that we can do. If you have a hobby you can go for it. You can play sports to keep yourself busy and active. You will go out and playing game with other people will help you to distract your mind from the activity that cause boredom.
You can play an instrument and keep yourself busy. Playing instrument or listening to it is also used for relaxing. If you don’t know how to play it then you can learn it in this time.
Playing an online game will also help you to deal with your boredom. If you like to play e sports than you can play a game that you like. If you haven’t played any. Then you can try a game of your choice of genre. If you already play then you can try some new and different games. In game there are different missions or levels are given to complete you can try on them to keep yourself busy and away from being bored.
Writing is a skill that can be used as hobby. If you like to write or you planned to write something. You can do it now and start writing. You can also write your ideas or a story that you can make in your mind. It will help you to focus on it.
Crossword puzzle, you can try it if you are bored or even if you have mates that are also bored you can go for this crossword puzzle and try to solve it.
Edit your picture/videos, every one of us have our pictures or videos that we have in our phones. We can try editing them to put more perfection in it. Or you can also try to add some funky things into it to make it funny.
Get together with friends will also help you to manage your boredom. Incase if you are bored of being lonely and you are fed up of because of it. You can go to meet your friends or call them to chat, you can recall your memories or fun parts of your life. Like in period of pandemic we all were mostly alone, some in quarantine or lockdown, we were bored for being in it for long time so, it was a good thing to catch up with your friends and have fun time with them.
Cooking skill is the one that you can try at your home to manage your boredom. If you like to cook. If you like to watch cooking shows or even if you like to eat good and new foods then you can try cooking at your home in this phase when you are bored. You can try to cook new dish that you like most. Or you can learn to cook a new recipe. There are a lot of helping material available online that you can use to cook.
You can also cook for your family and treat them with something new. You can try cooking with someone and also have fun during that. You can also add your own creativity in it to make it more good and different to others.
Listening music could be activity for you to get rid of your boredom. You can listen the music that you like. Now we have easy access to all the songs just one click away. There are different apps or platforms available that provide you such content. There re a lot of music genre and you can choose from them as you like.
Reading books is another interesting activity to be followed if you are feeling bored. There are different type of books available novels, stories, poetry, fiction, research, biography, real time incidents and many other you can read them to get more knowledge.
Reading is considered as a prime hobby that help you to increase your knowledge, you can make solid arguments and have good conversations. Even you can get e-books if you don’t have enough time to get it and read a hard form. Or you can also download an audio book and listen to it instead of reading.
Watching movies is a fun activity that you can follow. If you are bored and fed up from doing your tasks and want to have some entertainment. You can watch a movie of your choice. There are so many types of movies available in different languages. You can watch funny, action, drama, mystery, horror or any other movie.
You can go to a cinema to watch a movie with your friends or you can also go solo. Or if you cannot go outside and have to watch at home, everything is available online you can search on internet. There are different platforms that have such content of movies and serials. It is free and some is paid. You can choose content of your choice.
Yoga is exercise that help your mental and physical health to improve. It is a good activity to do at home. It help you to meditate and boost your power to focus.
Painting a picture, let’s try to draw or paint something of your imagination and you can also make something that you like for example a scenery or picture. There is so much helping material available online that can help you to start. You can know the basic needs to start drawing/painting. It is not very expensive hobby and you can try to create something out of your mind. It can also be sold to get benefit from it.
You can make a wish list. Make a list out of things that you want to achieve in your life or something that you want to get. Dream big and work to achieve it. Making a wish list will help you to achieve these goals by sorting them out and make a chronology of them. You might want to get a car, or dream Computer, a house, or you want to visit a destination. You make a list of them and achieve them one by one.
Doing a simple act of kindness is a beneficial activity to do. It is very easy thing to do you can be kind to others to pay them, help them in their difficult time or even you can show kindness with words of gratitude. It feels good when you help others.
You can makeover your room and give it a new look. You can add some new things in your room to make it look better. Add some sceneries, paintings or wall decorations. You can also change color of your walls and redesign it. Change the layout of furniture or other things in it, to give it a different look. Changing the covers of bed and cushions will also give it a new look.
Final words about feeling bored at Home are, When you are feeling bored it makes you lazy and you are less motivated to do anything. So it is good to do a fun activity in that to give yourself a relaxing time and deviate your mind from the work load and then you can start doing again after having some good time with more energy.
Home is place that is most closed to us and where we feel free and happy. Home is where our beloved people are that make you feel cared, loved and make your life happy. If you have people/family members that feel you like this than you should be grateful for it. You have to take time out of your busy schedule to spend some good time with them and have fun. At home you can do many activities to get yourself out of boredom. Take some time to do fun activities to keep your mind and body fresh and you will feel energetic to do any task.