With man coming of age and inventing technology to ease our efforts to waste time, there have become uncountable ways of wasting time in the contemporary world. While earlier, any activity other than sleeping would contribute to society (in fact even sleeping would), now there is so much variety of activities that segregating them into waste of time and utilisation of time is a humongous task. Let us start with first separating 10 prominent ways of wasting time.
1. Eating like a buffalo - How many times have you seen this ? An already plump person, sitting in a cafeteria and chewing something, seen anytime in the day troubling the cafe chairs. He came there just because he was a bit bored. He was a little hungry as well, so why not indulge into some poori bhaaji.
2. Talking like a radio - Endless talking. It was as if god wanted to give competition to human invention. A radio would still stop working once there is no battery in it, But this person would switch on his pandora box as soon as his mind starts getting unsettling thoughts of not dominating over the silence. With more network coverage, he can talk at length to anyone in the world, money flow being no bar to the flow of the words.
3. Sleeping - It is a universal favorite pastime. Just go into the bed, under the blanket, and forget that the world is going to end. What not, it is not going to end anyway, so why make an effort and save it or our lives, for that matter. It would be even more fun if your dad, mother of wife do not wake you up for going to office or school.
4. Procrastinating - It works as an equiliser sometimes. If a person is not getting paid as much as he liked, he would obviously do the work at a speed proportional to the ratio between his expected and his received. But of all the other times, it is such a great way to avoid tension (momentarily at least), to disturb friends in their work, to do anything you like. When you are in mood of procrastination, you will see any other work more interesting than the work assigned to you.
5. Youtubing - One video for taking a break, plssss. That video proves to be the starting hinge in a chain of videos. You would give your strict mind a little concession and decide to stop it just after watching this video, just to repeat the same exercise after this video ends. It doesn't stop till some higher power hits your fears and you close the browser tab immediately and come back to work.
6. Malling - Enjoy the sparkling shops and their designer clothes. Where you have the luxury of feeling like a king or queen, when the shopkeeper would do anything to make you feel happy about a dress so that you buy it. You also have freedom to do anything nasty and get away, because nobody would know who did it, and by the time cameras are looked at, you are already back to your home. You would see pretty girls and boys and have a nice time making comments about them. When you return home, the hours pin would have moved by more than a quarter.
7. Porning - Now you may have grown up, but remember the days when you needed it and they did most efficient service to you. It is an underrated hero of lives of many people. It may have done a good service, the value addition is zero but can never be negative, even if someone becomes addict. It may have caused you to score a D where you could have scored C in exam, but it would never have caused you to get an F. It is a philanthropic waste of time.
8. Joining Dharna and rallies - Yo Yo AK Singh. Dharna has become a fashion now and you are free to go to Jantar Mantar and shout for our rights. Your manager or professor is not giving us due recognition and we need to go to dharna so that our voices are heard collectively. You are not concerned about the time which could have been utilised by not joining the protest of some social worker and doing your work. Going to join a political party rally is a matter of pride to you, more than getting pass marks in college. Of course, college or office can be done anytime but politics, it is once in a lifetime chance.
Hope you got some inspiration to waste your time. I will utilise my time soon, just after this video ;)
1. Eating like a buffalo - How many times have you seen this ? An already plump person, sitting in a cafeteria and chewing something, seen anytime in the day troubling the cafe chairs. He came there just because he was a bit bored. He was a little hungry as well, so why not indulge into some poori bhaaji.
2. Talking like a radio - Endless talking. It was as if god wanted to give competition to human invention. A radio would still stop working once there is no battery in it, But this person would switch on his pandora box as soon as his mind starts getting unsettling thoughts of not dominating over the silence. With more network coverage, he can talk at length to anyone in the world, money flow being no bar to the flow of the words.
3. Sleeping - It is a universal favorite pastime. Just go into the bed, under the blanket, and forget that the world is going to end. What not, it is not going to end anyway, so why make an effort and save it or our lives, for that matter. It would be even more fun if your dad, mother of wife do not wake you up for going to office or school.
4. Procrastinating - It works as an equiliser sometimes. If a person is not getting paid as much as he liked, he would obviously do the work at a speed proportional to the ratio between his expected and his received. But of all the other times, it is such a great way to avoid tension (momentarily at least), to disturb friends in their work, to do anything you like. When you are in mood of procrastination, you will see any other work more interesting than the work assigned to you.
5. Youtubing - One video for taking a break, plssss. That video proves to be the starting hinge in a chain of videos. You would give your strict mind a little concession and decide to stop it just after watching this video, just to repeat the same exercise after this video ends. It doesn't stop till some higher power hits your fears and you close the browser tab immediately and come back to work.
6. Malling - Enjoy the sparkling shops and their designer clothes. Where you have the luxury of feeling like a king or queen, when the shopkeeper would do anything to make you feel happy about a dress so that you buy it. You also have freedom to do anything nasty and get away, because nobody would know who did it, and by the time cameras are looked at, you are already back to your home. You would see pretty girls and boys and have a nice time making comments about them. When you return home, the hours pin would have moved by more than a quarter.
7. Porning - Now you may have grown up, but remember the days when you needed it and they did most efficient service to you. It is an underrated hero of lives of many people. It may have done a good service, the value addition is zero but can never be negative, even if someone becomes addict. It may have caused you to score a D where you could have scored C in exam, but it would never have caused you to get an F. It is a philanthropic waste of time.
8. Joining Dharna and rallies - Yo Yo AK Singh. Dharna has become a fashion now and you are free to go to Jantar Mantar and shout for our rights. Your manager or professor is not giving us due recognition and we need to go to dharna so that our voices are heard collectively. You are not concerned about the time which could have been utilised by not joining the protest of some social worker and doing your work. Going to join a political party rally is a matter of pride to you, more than getting pass marks in college. Of course, college or office can be done anytime but politics, it is once in a lifetime chance.
Hope you got some inspiration to waste your time. I will utilise my time soon, just after this video ;)
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