~The Power of Boredom~

We have all been so incredibly bored during our life (for me,  practically every weekend) that we just get so desperate to do something to eat up our time. And there are times when anything that we think of doesn't seem good enough.

Take my usual weekend hobbies~

-Talking with my friends online
-Reading
-Writing Fan Fics
-Creating images in Gimp
-Drawing
-Listening to music
- Homework. . . . -__- 

Even though most of those (with the exception of the last one) are things that I do without thinking, there are days when even my usual hobbies won't entertain me. And it's not like I can go anywhere I like, go visit a friend's house any time I like or discover new hobbies that easily. Anything I think of on days like these, I'm like "No, I don't want to do that, it'll bore me even more." or "No, I do that plenty already." Or something on the lines of that.

Today I hit a major boiling point of "Boredom."

I was chatting with my friend on the internet, just talking about random things, and surfing the MCL forums. (Yup, I am a huge My Candy Love addict--look it up if you have no clue what I'm talking about.)

I stumbled across the "Games" Thread in the Forum, where there are games such as these:

-Count to 1,000,000!
-Write random names, but go through the whole alphabet (a-z repeatedly) 
-Rate the outfit above you

Basically these little games that you can play. Without knowing, me and my friend were on the Name Game, naming random names in turns. And there was nobody else playing--we filled up an entire page and a half of comments with just us taking turns in posting. We actually went through the entire alphabet before realizing what we were doing. And even after realizing that, I went on the "Count to 1,000,000" game and posted quite a few times (pah, understatement. . . ) there too.

We'd spent about an hour of valuable time playing random games--we could have been doing loads of things in that time, like homework, updating our Fan Fics, etc. But no, we spent it posting names and numbers for no purpose whatsoever.

That just proves that boredom  makes you do crazy things sometimes.

And to be honest, playing those games was kinda fun. I guess it's the excitement of waiting for someone else to respond to your posts just keeps you going. And the fact that the massive pile of homework to your right looks really uninviting--you're willing to do anything to stay away from it for as much as possible.

What sucks is that a lot of today's youth get bored really easily. Especially if they live miles away from all their other friends. It's so unfair, I'm the only one who lives in my area, which means it's like a miracle if I get to go to someone's house--because it's hard to pick a day that suits our transportation needs. If my friends lived close to me we'd just hang out all the time--unfortunately that's not possible in my case.

But it's true--I doubt that youngsters got bored years and years ago, when there was farming to worry about and no technology to distract us. I wonder what people did back then though, apart from play with wooden trains and dolls and rock on those little wooden horse things.

I really do hope I fight this horrible case of boredom one day--again, my weekend is nearly over. It feels like I woke up five minutes ago and it's already night now. And I've been spending the whole day talking to my friends online. *Sigh* Sometimes technology is such a bad thing. But I can't really blame computers. It's the fact that weekends make my brain go into a craze when I feel like I have an unlimited amount of time to do anything I want, when in fact it'll be over before I know it, and I've accomplished absolutely nothing during those precious two days when I could do so much more than just sit around. Make so much more of a difference.

There's always next weekend I guess.

Ha, we'll see how that goes.

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At the end of every post I will be taking part in a thirty day music challenge, just to keep myself blogging frequently. And plus it's kinda fun. 

Day One~ My Favorite Song

Demons~ Imagine Dragons

Words can't describe how much I love this song. I don't know whether it makes me happy or sad, but it makes me feel so emotional either way--it has such powerful lyrics and a beautiful melody. Imagine Dragons are amazing--they write amazing music, but Demons has to be my overall favorite song. It's just incredible.