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How Do You Cure Boredom?

Published: 3 years, 5 months ago (Dec 13, 2008) in Deep Thoughts
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First of all, I want to congratulate my peers who graduated today! I’m so happy for each of you! While I was watching the commencement ceremony, I started to think… what is everyone going to do after today? Heck, I myself have found that taking so much time off has made me contract a severe case of boredom.

I’ll present my readership with a simple scenario – you’re in one of those traditional interrogation rooms. There’s absolutely no distraction in the room whatsoever, just four blank walls, a floor, and a ceiling. What would you do to pass the time?

In my case, I would walk to a corner of the room, lay down, stare at the ceiling, and just think. I rarely have the opportunity to explore the realm outside of medicine anymore, so it’ll be refreshing to use my mind for something else. Trying to devise a new meaning for life, recollecting memories from my past, running through anatomy terms one by one (okay, I guess I won’t take my mind off of medicine completely ), etc. Hopefully, I’ll bore myself to sleep and wake up to freedom.

What would you do in such a case?

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3 Responses to “How Do You Cure Boredom?”

Cachi
Posted 3 years, 5 months ago
I would start licking the walls and yelling “leave britney alone!”

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Rizwana
Posted 3 years, 5 months ago
Hmm..Well if I am in the interrogation room I’m assuming I commited a crime, therefore I would think about who framed me, what evidence I have, what lawyer I need to get, what witnesses I have etc…

And after all that I would do what you said. Think. About past, present, future. Reflection is a great tool for oneself to grow spiritually and emotionally indeed.

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Michelle
Posted 3 years, 5 months ago
Hmmm….. yeah, I’d spend that time thinking too. Thinking and talking to God. I find that I’m going and doing so much during the day, that, by the time I put my head on the pillow at night, I’m excited to just think, without having to DO anything, for about 30 minutes straight…. or until I drift out of consciousness.

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