Boredom is synonymous to being
I've been on vacation so my journaling/blogging has been on hold for a couple of weeks but I'm back now. I think I picked some good prompts but my favorite today was: What do you write about when you're bored?
Being ADHD boredom, to me, is synonymous to being. When I was younger I kept journals for many years. I think from 1979 until 1993. What did I write in those journals when I was bored? That I was bored adding a what would now be called an emoji, a face with a flat line for a mouth, indicating there was no mood because I was bored. When I say that more than 50% of those younger journals had "bored" or "boring" as my "mood" I'm not exaggerating. In fact, I could be under exaggerating. All I know is it was a lot and I couldn't even think about what to write about for my day because I was "bored". Now understanding how ADHD works and the need for high stimulus for people like myself to feel motivated, I understand why boredom was my most common mood (ps, I know boredom isn't a mood, it's a state of being. A state in which I seem to be less often but still more often than I'd like).
As an adult with many things to do on a daily basis (work, home, puppies, friends) I really don't have time to get bored. I get, what I feel is, a case of the I don't feel like its. So much to do, and yet, I just don't feel like doing it. That's probably why I was labeled, endearingly by my former supervisor, a "Last minute Lucy". Things I need to get done but they're usually not stimulating enough so I put it off ending up with crunch time scheduling to get things done. Does this really have to do with what I write about when I'm bored?
Being bored is bad, but being bored and not knowing what you want to do is even worse. Those times when you're so bored, but nothing is appealing....that's one of those dilemmas that not much helps, but thankfully those days aren't too often. I can usually find something shiny to get me out of being bored.
So I guess what I write about when I'm bored is, well, being bored. I suppose that may not lend itself to being the most interesting writing, but if you can relate, then maybe it's not so bad. It sure is better than being bored, I can promise you that. So here's to shiny things that keep our minds occupied so we really don't have to write that often when we're bored, about being bored. Enjoy the rest of you day folks!