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I don’t want to waste my life away.

So I’m a super busy college student. Many of my days go for more than twelve hours, plus homework. When I get free time, I usually spend it wasting away with television and the internet. But the summer is coming up. I’ll be working, but it won’t be anywhere near the amount of time I spent on school things. I want to avoid spending twelve hours a day sitting on the couch doing nothing. Does anybody have suggestions on things I can do to keep me busy? I also have the problem of getting sucked into a funk. If I don’t have anything to do at all for a couple of days, I suddenly never want to move again. Does anybody have tips on how to avoid that? Thanks!

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carlybroken offline Verified User (4 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (3 minutes after post)

Do adventrous things, go on holiday, but cause you have work… Do parashutting one day, cannoing the next, hang out with friends.
For the - sucked into a funk thing- music. music changes music instantly sometimes, just try your favourite songs of all times, maybe that’ll chear you up!

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Earl of Kent offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (20 minutes after post)

Anonymous:

In order to help you, we need to know a bit more information. What do you like? What makes you happy? Who do you like to spend time with? What physical activities do you enjoy? When do you usually sleep? Will you be living with your parents/brothers and sisters? Are there any other relatives in the picture? Who needs you on a daily/weekly basis?
What are your short/and long term goals? What is your major?

Answer these and I will give you more help.
Sincerely,
Kent

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1 year ago (26 minutes after post)

I’m a big fan of music. I play a little piano and giotar. Those are things that I want to focus on getting good at over the summer (barring my funk). I also love to write. I always tell myself that I will do all of these things when I go home for breaks, but never actually do anything. I’m just starting to get into jogging, but I don’t have the attention span for sports. I usually sleep at night. haha. But really, whenever I’m tired. I’ve never been a fan of sleep. I’d always rather be doing something productive. I’ll be living with my parents with both adult sisters living nearby. I’ll be working a little bit, but that is currently my only real commitment. I’ve got some things I need to save up for and am afraid that I will not have much money to spend on outings. I’m at a place right now where I don’t have many concrete goals, and I think that’s a problem. I’m definitely a goal-oriented person. I’m a Music Business major.

Thanks!

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Earl of Kent offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 19 minutes after post)

Ok. The number one reason people get into the kind of funks you’re talking about is location. You can’t stay in the same place for too long. This is a problem for you because you want a vacation, a change. You can’t just roll out of a highly structured goal-oriented life into a similar one on vacation. It’s not enough change.

First of all, try to stick something that you really enjoy in the middle of each day. Not too early and not too late. For example, lunch or an exercise date with a friend (make a list of these things and vary them if you haven’t a particular thing you really love, like swimming in a pond). Next, pick things that you want to do but not so much, and stick them fairly early in the morning, like chores or writing in your journal.

Make a “Bucket list” of things you really want to do this summer (ok, it isn’t really a bucket list, but make them cool and realistic).
Work on achieving this list.

You need to write ONE SONG every three days and find other people who want to play around on the guitar with you.
I suggest you do your songwriting in a park, or on the shore of a body of water, or on the roof, but that’s just me.

Get out your digital camera and photojournal something.

Finally, most importantly, you must move your laptop computer to your sister’s house. Make appointments to go there regularly to use it for an hour or so. Put it where your sister can interact with you. TELL HER you would like to keep your computer at her house for a few weeks to stop you from spending all of your time on it watching hulu and going on help.com.
Your sister will welcome the company and will want to help you. If your computer is only available certain hours, you will move around more, interact more, and plan more.

So, I have discovered that I can accomplish great things when I am in certain places or environments, but can accomplish nothing at all if I am in other places. You need to really try to find those places for yourself. Make a map for yourself about where you want to be at several different times of the day and stick to it!

Spend a bit of time on your philosophical self this summer, say ten minutes a day. Try to do this WITHOUT your computer, with a pen and pencil or something, or with paint or friends.

anyway, good luck. I ran out of time.

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 month after post)

visit dadabhagwan.org and understand true meaning of life !!, that’s enough.

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