Civ001 wrote:
So I am now 18 and a senior and I got early release every day now YAY!! But there is a huge problem with this. I am extremely bored with the amount of free time that I have. I get out from school at 1:30 catch the bus and go to the public library from 2:00-5/6:30 and the whole time I am there I usually just stay on the computer or play my 3DS or do some homework and I get extremely bored. I also get really lonely and I want to hang out with some people but I don't see that many people from school that are around me. I may see like one or two here like every other week and they talk to me a few but I get extremely bored with everything there. I just seem to have way to much free time on my hands. I have asked other sites on what I should do with my time and people would often say to me find a sport or a club to join but I am not into either of those things. I thought about getting a job but I just don't want to change my routine of things. I would like to know from people on WP what should I do with this much amount of free time?
I run a public library that furnishes computers to the public, particularly for kids after school. What I would recommend as such is that you take a few minutes away from the computers and look at some books on topics that interest you.
Boredom is nothing more than a form of mental destitution. Boredom results when we fill our heads full of nothing but vacuous entertainment. When we get tired of the entertainment, or when we cannot be entertained, we have nothing to fall back on.
It was very common for dissidents of both communism and fascism to be locked in solitary confinement for long periods. Many of them have said that the only thing that kept them sane was thinking about all the books they had read. Though I have never been in solitary confinement, I can say their approach does work. About the only time I get bored is when I have to do a monotonous task that requires enough of my attention so that I can't think about other things.
Reading challenging books is not only good mental exercise that helps keep the mind in shape, but is also saving thoughts for a rainy day, so to speak.