Bored

“I am bored”… We often hear that line from people of any age. Babies and toddlers, become cranky when they’re bored. Kids, often get bored, during long hours of traveling. That’s why parents pack up some playing cards, books or board games, to minimize their boredom. Kids often cure their boredom on their own. They sing nursery rhymes or songs, daydream, and pester their parents or other siblings or tell jokes / riddles to people that they are traveling with.

Other instances that a kid might get bored are off days from school. It is an exciting time. But it can also get pretty boring if there’s nothing to do. A kid can watch television for hours, play video games, read books and comics and play with his friends. But after all that, you’ll still hear him whine to his self or to someone that he’s bored out. Or hear him whimper while saying, “I’m bored”.

Boredom can only be a bit tough to bored teenagers. A teenager can do a lot of things like, listen to music, go out and hang-out somewhere, hang-out with friends, watch a movie or any television show, but when it gets really boring, a teenager will just sleep it off to kill time. That’s what bored teenagers do, when they’re bored stiff.

For adults being bored out is much easier to handle. Maturity can help. He can start up a new hobby or try a new sport, drink out with friends or read a newspaper. If he’s married, he can go out on a date with his wife or go on a picnic trip with his children, or paint the fence, do some chores like cutting or mowing the lawn and cleaning out the garage.

For grandparents, to kill boredom they may listen to the radio, knit or smoke a pipe and play with their grandchildren (if they have any), but if not they often spend some time in church or just sit in a racking chair out the porch and gaze in the horizon. And then they’ll still ask their selves, “what to do when bored?”

But for old people, who are living in nursing homes, they follow a certain program to kill the time or to kill the boredom. Volunteers come over to read for them or play cards and chess with them. But at the end of the day, when there’s nothing to do but stay in their rooms, you’ll hear one of them say, “I am bored”. People often associate boredom with nothing to do. But not necessarily. It doesn’t mean that you’re bored, because you’re doing nothing. A person can get bored for doing things that he does over and over again or doing it all the time. Like, a person can get bored with his job or bored with his life, but mainly bored at work because it becomes routinary. When this happens, a person who’s bored at work may quit his job, take some time off or go on a trip or vacation. This person thinks things over, what really is the answer or better yet the solution to boredom.

Boredom cannot only happen with work or about things mentioned earlier. Some people get bored with life itself. Some people kill their selves, because they think that there’s nothing better to do, because they’re so bored. Some people deal with the boredom of their lives by trying an extreme sport or go on a blind date.

So when you hear someone say, “I’m bored”, it can be a dilemma.