I was trying to while away some time as there wasn’t much for me to do and honestly didn’t know what to do next when I am having free time!!!
Agreed, if there is time, you have ample opportunity to do ample things, but what is the use when those ample things don’t come to your mind when have the luxury of endless time at your disposal. Nothing as boring as that!!! All the while I had the misconception that free time is fun time, actually it is not true, and anyone who has walked my shoes will be able to tell that.
Having so much free time actually bores you, not because you don’t have much choice, it just that you are unable to pick up the right choice and make effective use of the time. One moment I find browsing entertaining, the other moment reading is more engaging, the very next minute gazing around seems fun, but all these quick successions of choices becomes very uninteresting no sooner than you pick the options. When I am illusioned that the other option is always better than my current one, I don’t find myself engaging in any productive activity. With no fixed mind and no fixed focus on what to do, the end result is I find whatever I am currently doing as the most uninteresting job and that gives way to boredom. Boredom has more psychological effects on me – it tends to make me slightly depressive, disillusioned, disoriented and what not. It makes me feel very low at times.
Best way to fight it out I feel is just stop it from taking control of me and just focus, focus on One Single thing (multi-tasking here is of no help) that could evade my thoughts from boredom, it could be anything, just reading a page from a book, or listening to meaningful music, writing anything that comes to my mind, closing my eyes and meditating, investing time on creativity etc etc. Concentrated focus of any one job seems to help tackling boredom a to a good extent.
Though this is a meaningless article, while writing am happy that am able to concentrate and pen down my thoughts of how I feel right now which makes me feel much better and happy that boredom actually helped me productively by commiting my thoughts to paper and finally make me write back again….writing now has brought back the same zeal of energy and enthusiasm which I felt (seems like) eons back, when I had this passion for writing which slowly sublimed due to various unacceptable lame excuses I gave myself from pursuing from the passion that I long held…….
Boredom in my case, acted like a stimulant kindling the long lost passion in me. Once in a while it is worth getting bored if it benefits me. Hoping this new journey on the path of creative writing which I deserted long time back, unleashes exciting experience and experiments which would develop me into a “better” ameateur writer.
Agreed, if there is time, you have ample opportunity to do ample things, but what is the use when those ample things don’t come to your mind when have the luxury of endless time at your disposal. Nothing as boring as that!!! All the while I had the misconception that free time is fun time, actually it is not true, and anyone who has walked my shoes will be able to tell that.
Having so much free time actually bores you, not because you don’t have much choice, it just that you are unable to pick up the right choice and make effective use of the time. One moment I find browsing entertaining, the other moment reading is more engaging, the very next minute gazing around seems fun, but all these quick successions of choices becomes very uninteresting no sooner than you pick the options. When I am illusioned that the other option is always better than my current one, I don’t find myself engaging in any productive activity. With no fixed mind and no fixed focus on what to do, the end result is I find whatever I am currently doing as the most uninteresting job and that gives way to boredom. Boredom has more psychological effects on me – it tends to make me slightly depressive, disillusioned, disoriented and what not. It makes me feel very low at times.
Best way to fight it out I feel is just stop it from taking control of me and just focus, focus on One Single thing (multi-tasking here is of no help) that could evade my thoughts from boredom, it could be anything, just reading a page from a book, or listening to meaningful music, writing anything that comes to my mind, closing my eyes and meditating, investing time on creativity etc etc. Concentrated focus of any one job seems to help tackling boredom a to a good extent.
Though this is a meaningless article, while writing am happy that am able to concentrate and pen down my thoughts of how I feel right now which makes me feel much better and happy that boredom actually helped me productively by commiting my thoughts to paper and finally make me write back again….writing now has brought back the same zeal of energy and enthusiasm which I felt (seems like) eons back, when I had this passion for writing which slowly sublimed due to various unacceptable lame excuses I gave myself from pursuing from the passion that I long held…….
Boredom in my case, acted like a stimulant kindling the long lost passion in me. Once in a while it is worth getting bored if it benefits me. Hoping this new journey on the path of creative writing which I deserted long time back, unleashes exciting experience and experiments which would develop me into a “better” ameateur writer.
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So true :)
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