Happy New week everyone,
When I saw this prompt, I was a bit surprised and confused at the same time, lol.
This is because it seems the 24hours is not enough anymore so who has got the time to be bored?
Blogging on Hive alone will take half of the day before you attend to your social media messages and boom! You are already struggling to squeeze out time for your offline activities, hehehe.

But for the purpose of this prompt, I will surely write of how I coped from September to December 2017, this was when I experienced boredom for real, it was the period when I was done with secondary school but the university administrations were yet to release the admission lists so we literally had nothing to do....*just sleep, eat, press phone and sleep again and honestly, just like the prompt said, it is indeed one of the worst things that could happen to anyone on earth* and you know what the most annoying thing is?


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[Source](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1606103920295-9a091573f160?q=80&w=870&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D)
***It is the fact that those days always seems to be longer than other days, like they've got 30hours in a day, lol.***

<center>**How Did I Then Survive?**</center>

Well, all thanks to my musics, movies and Premier League matches alongside my Powerbank.
After the first week, I figured out that I needed to get an alternative power source because the electricity company were so inconsistent forcing me to talk evening and afternoon walks around the street which never solved any problem, lol.
This made me got a Powerbank from my savings in secondary school and gave me a new mission  which was to make sure my Powerbank is charged to a 100% at all times,  you will see me carrying my charger around like a wedding ring...
*This was the first step at solving the problem and it got easier from here....*

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With my phone switched on, I shuffled every nook and cranny of music applications, discovered new songs and made my own playlists which I still use till today just that I keep updating it with the recent songs too...
Musics are always therapeutic and poses great company in times of boredom; I remember most times when vibing to the musics I will sleep off for maybe an hour or two and that's the definitive cure for boredom, ***burning hours, lol.***

The next thing that came to my rescue was always the anticipation of the European premier league matches and champions League matches to be played.
It kept me great company as I usually go to the viewing centers to watch them and interact with other football lovers and burn time also.
It was always the best when these football matches span across the whole week and not just the weekends and this happens when we have the  champions league fixtures.

Finally, the greatest saviour remains movies.
This was the time I watched almost all the movies I know now because entering the school reduced my screen hours on movies but then, I had the whole time in the world...
All I needed was just to stay awake by 12am and do the MTN night plan with my multiple SIM cards since a maximum of 1Gigg is allocated to each sim then... I go to the extent of using my siblings and mum's SIM cards too just so I could download more, then get to watch movies.



<center>**Did It Work?**</center>

Yes, once I had the trio ready, I kept alternating them and burning hours which makes the day run faster aiding my boredom.

An idle mind they say is the devil's workshop so by all means, always engage in some activities before those negative thoughts creeps into your mind.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day 👍



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