Are you at home alone and feeling bored, waiting for an event, or just waiting for something else? As is the case with all of us, of course there are moments in your life that make you wish they never ended. On the other hand, there are also moments in your life that seem endless. If at any time you want to try to kill boredom while attending a meeting, studying in class, waiting for someone, or being on a long trip somewhere that isn't very exciting, try the following techniques to make time seem to pass faster.
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Method 1 of 4: Passing Time Relaxing
Step 1. Go for a walk
Enjoying the outdoors and a breath of fresh air helps you pass time and relieve stress. Try taking a short walk around your home or office. Even if you only have 10 minutes, a short walk can be a great way to pass the time.
- Try inviting coworkers or friends to take a walk so you can enjoy your time more. For example, if you are at work, you can take the time off by taking a walk with your co-workers. You can also bring a cup of coffee or tea to enjoy while breathing fresh air and chatting.
- You can also walk around inside the building if you can't go outside. Walk around your office or desk, or pace the halls of the building/office.
- If you're at school or work and can't go outside for a walk, you can exercise or train your body without attracting much attention by relaxing and tightening certain muscles. You can do this exercise in front of the computer, while watching television, or even in your room. If you've been on a plane or train for a long time, try stretching your legs or stretching your arms.
- For women, you can also try Kegel exercises.
Step 2. Try meditating
At first, meditation may not make you feel that time is running fast, but once you get into it, you can enter the dimension of “tankala” (not bound by time). It is your mind that keeps counting time, while when you meditate, you have to empty your mind.
- You can find recorded meditation guides on YouTube to help you if you've never meditated before.
- You can even meditate while doing other activities, such as running. Try choosing one “mantra” to repeat and focus on while going about your daily activities.
- If meditation doesn't suit your still confused mind, try daydreaming. Imagine yourself in an exciting place or story. You can also imagine yourself engaging in conversation or other interesting things.
- You can also try deep breathing exercises. Breathing deeply at a slow rhythm can calm and focus your attention on the flow of your breath, and may make you enjoy the situation more than you previously imagined. Try to inhale for a count of eight, hold, and exhale for a count of eight. Repeat this process until the flow of breathing feels more natural and your mind can wander calmly.
Step 3. Try to take a nap
While it may not sound comforting, taking a nap helps you pass the time and makes you more alert when you wake up later. Regardless of the situation you're in (e.g. when you're sleepy at the office during the evening hours, have night shifts or double shifts), or fight drowsiness while driving), take a short nap or power nap in a different place. Safe can make you more alert and productive.
Try short 20-minute naps to re-energize, or longer sleeps to pass the time
Step 4. Keep a journal or create a new blog
Writing can be a great way to straighten or manage your thoughts, as well as make time seem to pass faster. Try journaling about whatever's on your mind, or blog about things that interest you. You can blog about creative writing, cooking, video games or anything else that interests you!
- Take time to write a journal or blog every day, such as in the morning for 30 minutes or after school.
- You can easily create a blog through sites like WordPress and Blogger, but the creation process can be time consuming so blogging can be a great way to make time seem to go by faster. You can also adjust the color scheme, typeface, and image on the blog so that it looks the way you want and has its own characteristics.
Method 2 of 4: Entertaining Yourself
Step 1. Spend time with your friends
Take a few hours to chat, laugh and do whatever it takes with friends to kill time. Boredom can be defeated by having friends so that the more people you invite to spend time together and have fun, the more crowded and fun the atmosphere around you will be. However, if you can only get/invite one friend to spend time with, at least the atmosphere will still feel much more pleasant than when you spend your time alone.
- If you don't have any friends around who have free time, take this opportunity to call back and meet an old friend you've been wanting to talk to for a long time.
- Even if you only have five minutes to chat with a friend or coworker, free time like this helps you brighten your day and pass the time.
Step 2. Listen to music
Music can make your day feel faster and more enjoyable, whether you're at home, at school, or at work. Try listening to music all day to pass the time, or listen to new songs or your favorite songs in between classes or assignments.
- For example, if you are studying, you can listen to uplifting electronic music to pass the time.
- If you're at the office, you can play some music as a small reward after you've finished each job on your daily to-do list.
Step 3. Watch your favorite old television show or movie
If you're at home and want to pass the time, pick a television show and watch one season in a row! Activities like these can help you pass time faster by keeping you entertained.
- Visit YouTube or Netflix (or iFlix and other streaming sites) and browse your favorite childhood shows, such as Jin and Jun, Jinny Oh Jinny!, Tuyul and Mbak Yul, Amigos, Carita de Angel, Full House, Sassy Girl Chun Hyang, or Inuyasha. See if the shows you used to love can still impress you and are no less exciting than the new shows.
- You can also watch new movies that you haven't seen in theaters yet, like the latest Marvel superhero comics, or the award-winning movies that your friends are talking about.
Step 4. Play the game on your phone
Most phones come with (at least) one free game like Candy Crush Saga or Pac-Man that can keep your attention for longer than you might think. However, this kind of activity is not recommended when you are at school or work.
If you're at home and have a video game console (or games on your computer), this can be a fun way to pass the time
Method 3 of 4: Doing Productive Activities
Step 1. Do something you love
One of the best ways to pass/spend time is to choose a fun project/activity to work on. If you're at school or work, find out if there's anything you can do that's a lot more fun than your other job. If you're at home, think about what you want to do for fun and do whatever seems most exciting to you.
For example, if you are at work or school and you have a creative project to work on, get ready and work on it. If you're at home, choose a hobby or other activity you usually do in your free time, such as knitting, baking, playing guitar, or playing video games
Step 2. Read something
Find an interesting long read to make time feel like it goes by quickly! You can learn about Soe Hok Gie or the history of Java, or read books about foreign countries. Whatever you read, you will still gain new knowledge.
If you can't sit down and read, try listening to audiobooks. This activity feels useful, especially when you are exercising or doing other physical activities
Step 3. Complete your homework
Who would have thought that solving algebra problems and reading about B. J. Habibie (also known as “Mr. Crack”) could help you pass the time? Yes, you may not enjoy doing your homework, but once you "sink" and focus on your task, you will realize that an hour has passed. If you make it a habit to do homework every time you feel bored and want to kill time, you can become a diligent student!
- You can even do group work and occasionally joke around with your friends while completing your homework. Make sure you don't joke around too much so that your task can still be completed.
- If you don't have homework to do, do the work on your daily or weekly to-do list. Think about the things you want to get done and make a to-do list from now on.
Step 4. Tidy up your room
First, remove any food wrappers, cardboard boxes, non-donation trash, or anything else that's making your room messy. After that, tidy up your things (including your furniture one by one) until you manage to tidy up your bed, study table, drawers, wardrobe, and so on. If you just want to kill time for an hour or two, try tidying up one part of your room first. After that, you will feel proud of your work.
- For more fun, ask your relatives or friends for help!
- You can even bring used clothes that are no longer used to second hand goods exchanges or humanitarian agencies. You will feel relieved and proud of yourself for doing a good deed and emptying and tidying up your messy wardrobe.
- If you need to clean up your stuff and haven't had time to do so (eg cleaning out your wardrobe and managing your jewelry), this is a great time to do it.
Step 5. Learn some phrases in a foreign language
While you can't learn one language in one day, you can learn how to say, for example, “Hi! My name is…” and “How are you?” in just a few minutes. Choose a foreign language you've always wanted to learn and try to learn some phrases in that language for a few minutes.
Try keeping a daily phrase calendar on your desk at work, at home, or in your backpack. Take five minutes each day to read the phrases that come to mind and aloud afterward. This activity can be a perfect moment of rest and give you a kind of “task” that you have to do every day
Step 6. Respond to old emails
Do you have a bunch of old emails that haven't been responded to? If so, it's time to turn on the computer and respond to all the emails sent by people (eg from professors, friends, or business associates) waiting for your reply. You will feel relieved after straightening the existing communication when there is nothing else you can do.
Method 4 of 4: Working on Creative Projects
Step 1. Make an origami craft
By focusing on the intricacies of the origami craft, your mind won't be fixated on time. There are many variations of origami crafts that you can make, and if you really like them, you can make a zoo or bouquet made entirely of origami crafts.
- Try making a paper soccer craft and play with it.
- Alternatively, make origami frog jumps with a friend and have a race to see who can jump the furthest.
Step 2. Try drawing
Make a self-portrait, a caricature of someone close to you, or a cartoon. If you don't like the result, close your eyes and try to draw something simple without lifting your pencil or pen once. The results may be interesting and unexpected, and you won't be put under pressure to produce a great masterpiece (though you may also be surprised by your drawings).
You can look in the mirror and draw yourself
Step 3. Download the free sound editing system to the computer
You can edit people's voices to sound like squirrels or gorillas, or make singers sound like children's voices. If you want, try to be more creative and come up with a cool song to share with your friends. You can also upload your work to Facebook.
Step 4. Make a collage
Get some used magazines and cut out some cool pictures. After that, make a random collage of letters, pictures of human heads, adorable kittens, drink ads, or whatever. You can create a fake ransom note for your sibling or create a sexy superhero from different parts of a celebrity's body. You can also attach the face of a certain celebrity to the body of someone who is fat and hairy.
When you're done, hang up your masterpiece or give it to a friend
Step 5. Write a poem about what happened yesterday
You don't need to write poetry with stunning rhymes like Chairil Anwar's poems. The poems you write can be upbeat, fun, sad and serious, or whatever you want. Try describing the hamburger you ate yesterday at lunch in a very poetic style, or write a serious poem about your relationship with your mother. Who knows you may finally realize that you are actually a poet, and you didn't know it all this time!
If you are satisfied with your work, upload your poem on sites like Poetry.com
Step 6. Finish the Pinterest project you started
You must have already saved (pin) interesting photos on your Pinterest board, such as adorable polka dot doll socks, Halloween lanterns made of pumpkins that (actually) look beautiful like Raisa, or custom-made wedding dresses. of tinfoil. However, when can you start completing innovative projects like this? Of course now! Go through your list of craft projects and pick one to work on, or search for new craft projects on Pinterest and consider what projects you can complete in a few hours. After that, start working on your project!
If a project like this sounds too much of a hassle, simply browsing Pinterest can help you get through or kill some boring time
Step 7. Take some artful photos
Get your old camera or cell phone ready and walk around the house or yard taking photos of interesting furniture or objects in the right lighting. Who knows you have an interest in photography and can use your skills whenever you want.
You can also walk around your residence or office building to take photos while exercising
Tips
- If you are waiting for an event, be prepared to attend the event. It's a good idea to be prepared from the start because the preparation itself helps you get through time.
- Don't waste your time. Enjoy every second because life is short.
- If you're waiting for something that hasn't happened (and is still a long time coming), try waiting for the smaller moments. Instead of waiting for a vacation that's still to come in four months, wait for a day to pass, then a week, and finally a month. Before you know it, the day you've been waiting for has finally arrived!
