No matter how busy we are in life and how far we have come trying to be engaged with activities, boredom is one thing we cannot escape through life because every stages of our lives has its own experience. So me must have in one way or the other experienced boredom.
This means that life is not a one way traffic where we just keep going without pausing or encouraging something that will make us to stop, and this times might be when boredom might set into our lives. So if anyone has not in anyway experienced boredom, the person should count himself or herself lucky. Or at the same time be prepared for the day when boredom will set in.
As a working class youth in my earlier days who goes to work from Monday to Friday, then on Saturdays will have some outdoor engagement with friends, maybe to the park, the beach 🏖 or a friends wedding I never new what boredom could taste like until I got married and had my first daughter. And because companies in those days will issue you a six (6) months Maternity Leave which enables you to recuperate from child birth and gives you time to take care of your baby.
The six (6) months guarantees that your baby would have gained so much attention, care and love ❤️ she or him deserves from a mother before you go back to work after the six months. The first one month during this leave was so cool that I felt so good because of how family and friends kept visiting me to see the baby, stay hours before they leave.
And suddenly into the second month, I started feeling so lonely since my husband leaves the house for business from time to time. I will just take care of my baby, bath her and do some washing which are just little to in a day and through the week. Gradually, it appears as if I was loosing touch with the world 🌎 and because I was mot a movie 🎥 watcher, boredom became so intense that I started asking myself questions of why did I decide to have my baby now? Should I not have waited for few years to pass before getting pregnant? In fact I started annoying my husband with too many questions that lead to several issues just because I saw myself staying home to take care of my baby.
This usually is what many mothers face after child birth but it all comes in different ways my doctor told me when I visited for my baby check ups called antenatal. She counseled me to start reading book of my choice especially magazines and fashion monthly since she knew I love ❤️ to explore fashion . And she also recommended outdoor activities once the baby becomes three (3) months which I was very happy about.
And gradually, I sourced so many magazines and fashion books to be reading and towards the weekend , we will leave the house to visit the park, stay for a while to enjoy with other families who also visited. And my mood began to come back to the person I use to be, and seeing my by growing at the same time brought me so much joy. I could not believe such a mood swings in me, but this is human for you. Life can never be perfect at all time.
The only way we can get through boredom is trying to engage in that one thing we love 💕. Although sometimes that one thing we love might not even interest us. But we need to know that it might not even last in it before we get back on our feet. In this times or era I don’t think people gets bored 😑 since there are so many activities to engage on especially that of the social media where there are so much entertainment unless one lacks money for data.
My life right now is full of activities that I can’t even remember the last time I got bored. First, family activities that has become priority, then work and social outdoor activities that makes life a continuous process in the world 🌎 we live and pursue . So just like everything has time, boredom is one experience that’s also a part of life.
This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 194, edition 01, tagged “BOREDOM CAUSED IT”.
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