stateofmind

“Boredom is a relatively easy disease to catch. It can be caught in the following ways and many more:

-Hanging out with a group of 5 or less people, where the majority of the group has the virus.
-People with A.D.D or A.D.H.D tend to contract the virus randomly.
-Being stuck in one place for an extended period of time. IE: grounded to your room, stuck in an elevator, snowed in at a cabin, ect.
-Losing contact with the outside world for whatever reason.
-Being alone with someone who has the virus, without a specific plan or goal for what you are going to do.
-Being unemployed makes you twice as likely to contract the virus.
-Being unemployed and out of School makes you up to 8 times more likely to contract the virus.
-People under the age of 24 are 52 times more likely to contract the virus than people over the age of 40.”

-Through My Eyes

“Boredom is not the traditional virus. It can be caught many ways, in which other viruses can not, and once you get it, you will have boredom for the rest of your life. One natural cure for boredom is aging. When you reach a certain age (between 24 and 45, depending on the person, and the age in which the virus was contracted) boredom will just cease to exist within your system.

But for those less fortunate, they will be stuck with boredom until they are properly cured by methods found in this book, including but not limited to reading this book. Boredom can also be temperately eliminated, one way boredom can be eliminated is by being over burdened with work or stress. Stress is one thing that is a direct result of boredom, therefore if you are stressed out, you skipped the phase of boredom, and went straight to the final step of stress. While you are stressed, you are still infected with boredom, but the virus remains dormant until your stress goes away. One other method of curing boredom is through things you are passionate about, or things you think are fun, but really, neither of these are cures, as the virus remains dormant in your system during these time periods. The stated above act much like sleeping does, it is only a temporary cure, and it is about as effective as knocking yourself out, when it comes to actually solving your problem.”

-Through My Eyes

Under this category I will be posting some random exerts from the book I am writing. If you are interested in my book, you will like these posts. If you like my blog, you will probably like my book, and if you are bored, you need my book, because it will cure your boredom. So keep checking back every day for more posts from my book, and I’ll continue to post them as I write it. Hope you enjoy my work, more to be posted soon, and remember, if your bored, we have everything you need to cure your boredom, whether it be parts of my book, insight on life, or just random pop culture references, we have it here on my blog, State of Mind.

-Through My Eyes

Introduction:

The lights are off, there is not a single thing in the room, no lovely furniture, no television with my favorite sitcom playing, no desk to do work at, nothing, except me. I sit alone, in the dark. I am trying to figure things out, but I can no longer decipher the truth from the illusions. My mind feels as if it is going to explode, suddenly I wake up in a deep sweat. It was just a dream, or is this the dream? I really can’t tell anymore.
Boredom is something that is hard to explain, and yet, it can very simply be defined as, “the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest.” Boredom is basically what happens when you have nothing to do, and no one to do said nothing with.  Back to the dream, when you are bored to the point where you just want to give up, you sleep. Sometimes, when someone is depressed, they will do drugs as a temporary fix, sleeping is the drug of the bored. Sleeping will give you a temporary solution for the problem of boredom, but after that happens, you will be back to square one, this book is the rehab for your sleeping addiction, this book is what you need to actually cure boredom, instead of finding a temporary fix.
Not only does sleeping have a metaphoric translation to being a drug, but if you really think about it, sleeping might actually be a drug. I have came to this conclusion based upon the following points. Sleeping is used as a temporary fix for boredom. The more you sleep, the more you want to sleep. Really think about what sleeping is, you pass out, hallucinate, and then wake up forgetting everything you hallucinated about, sounds like a drug, does it not?

-Through My Eyes 

I recently came up with the idea that it might help me cure my boredom, by telling other how to cure their own. I have decided to write a book (or attempt to do so) in the time where I can’t think of anything else to do, and am bored. The book will have much of the same style as some of this blog, and will be entitled, “The Cure for Boredom.” It will pretty much be random blurbs and insight, organized into sections, in which will attempt to make your life more enjoyable, and give you a look at my life, and some interesting aspects of it. I will probably post a few sections of the book here, and I will probably use a few sections I have posted here in the book, either way, I’ll keep you posted.

-Through My Eyes

“The Zombie Survival Guide”, By Max Brooks, is possible one of the greatest books of all time. It is a thrilling, hilarious, creative, genius guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse. It starts off identifying the “real life” disease that causes people to become zombies. It then takes you step by step, chapter by chapter, on how to be ready, how to survive, and how to best deal with a zombie apocalypse. It builds a great foundation about zombies, and then uses that foundation through out the book. This book is also referenced several times in the “sequel” to the book, “World War Z”, which is a book also written by Max Brooks, in which is a detailed account of the War against Zombies, which takes place in the future. But more on that book at a later time.

-Through My Eyes

Controller:

You like to have your way, you plan things out, and boss people around, when ever there is an event, you host it, you are always head of the planning committee. When someone asks you what to do, you jump right in and tell them. You hate random things, or things involving chance. Whenever you drive somewhere, you perfer to be the driver.

Controlled:

You get told what to do constantly. You listen to what people tell you to do. You don’t have strong opinions. You tend to follow trends and styles. You fall into peer pressure. You would rather go to an event than host it. You don’t care who drives. You have no real picture in mind when you do things, and if you do, you don’t push for it.

So which are you? Are you being controlled? Or are you a Controller?

-Through My Eyes

Myspace, Facebook, two sites which revolutionized social networking as we know it, but which one is the better of the two? Both have their ups and downs, but who is the clear winner? Myspace is a place where you can spam bulletins to all your friends, make your own cool profiles, and message all your friends. Downside, most college students use Facebook, tons of little catcha phrase things that make you enter random digits. Facebook has a nice chatting system, and a cool way too add people you may know. Downside, people spam you with app invites, profile is not too customizable. I will not pick a side, I have both, but which do you see as on top?

-Through My Eyes

Ping Pong is a very fun sport. It falls into the racket category that both tennis and racket ball fall under. This sport is very entertaining, and can become very fast pased as you get better at it. Some call it table tennis, but that just doesn’t have the flare of PING PONG! The goal, much like tennis, is to get the ball to bounce on your opponents side and have them miss the ball. Ping pong takes tennis, makes it smaller, and faster, and adds a ton of different skill shots to it. A ping pong ball can spin and curve a million times easier than a tennis ball, therefore adding a whole new level of skill to the game. I think this is probably one of the most fun games in the category, so grab a ball and get pingin’!

-Through My Eyes

You finally finished printing your 10 page paper you have been working on all week. You go to print it, and a familiar thing pops up on your screen, “Paper Jam!” You look at the printer, and it sucked in all the pages you had in it to try to print it, and now it’s jammed. Or maybe your out of ink. Or maybe you didn’t have any paper in it, so it paused the printing process, and now that you put paper in, it wont print. Or maybe you just got a new printer, and you try to install it, and BAM, not Vista compatible. Whatever it is, it seems you can never print your paper. Maybe your printer is telling you that putting things off to the last minute is a bad thing. My printer tells me this constantly, but the best advice is the one you never take…

-Through My Eyes