Many great thinkers have dismissed the very notion that one might need help finding “things to do when you’re bored.” “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” said Friedrich Nietzsche. And “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people,” said G.K. Chesterton. Or there was Zelda Fitzgerald who wrote, “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”
Ok, so boredom is kind of illogical. After all, there’s a big old world out there – so much to learn, to see, to do! How could any of us ever succumb to boredom? Nevertheless, every now and then, we all do.
We have all found ourselves bed rotting on a Saturday afternoon, doomscrolling on our phones with absolutely no plans and nothing to do. It’s a real shame, because day-to-day life tends to be busy and we rarely get time to ourselves – so why, when we do, do we struggle to make the most of it?
If you need an extra little push to beat your ennui, here are 75 things you to do when you’re bored.
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Entertain yourself
- Find a new show to binge
- Find an old show to binge
- Watch an old favourite movie
- Return to an old favourite
- Read something – anything!
- Do some karaoke
- Go to the theatre
- Visit an art gallery
- Listen to a podcast
- Make a playlist
- Play a video game
- Do a puzzle
- Do some art
- Learn a dance
- Practise an instrument
