I have a hard time with boredom when the weather is either too hot, or too cold to go out and move around. Especially the heat. At those times, I watch Netflix or Hulu until I feel like I will scream from boredom. If a show is good (well, good to me) it’s not so bad. I will get up and walk in place while watching if I get too restless. But, it’s hard to find things to watch that keep my interest!
Even though I am 66 years old, I still have a hard time with sitting for long periods of time. I get more and more agitated until I just want to scream. I can do a bit of cleaning or something, but with just 2 adults living here, it doesn’t get that dirty.
I did a lot of active work when I did work. I had a few office jobs, but the sitting about did me in! I then spent forty years cleaning houses and watching children. Those are active jobs and I loved them! I think I would still love to be a nanny to an infant even at my age, but arthritis decided to move in and cause lots of back and neck pain, so I don’t know if I could do the long hours. Truthfully, I don’t know that anyone would hire me at my age. I can get up and down off the floor like a champ, as I do exercises for my back, but doing any activity that I have to bend and straighten repeatedly is painful.
Wow, I always get off subject and rant. So, for me, boredom can set in if I am sitting for very long. Learning crochet has helped a little as it occupies my mind and hands. Even with that, after about an hour of sitting, my entire body and my brain screams for me to get up!
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