Disclaimer : What you are going to read is in no way a work of research or scientific thesis . It’s just a random outcome of the thought process that exists in a sick (literally… the throat infection kind..) person’s mind who is “ bored till ingenuity ”and might have psychedelic effects on your mind ( just joking ) . Don’t know what this drab sounding theory is all about ? Read on …
Someone asked me , “ Is the Darwin’s theory the ultimatum for the explanation of evolution ? Does it not have the loop holes that usually exist in other theories ? ” I shrugged off his question as my mind was too occupied with other things and I thought it was a trivial question. Things that didn’t allow me to look beyond the obvious and the unquestioned . Our minds are trained to accept the conventionally theorized principles in the schools. If you begin to question the textbooks in your exams , well , you stay in the school for a few more years than you normally would ( not a personal experience… ).
The thing is , when you have nothing to occupy your mind - no books around , nothing worthy of reading , no classes in the college and no project at hand and you are too Sick to think anything Academic or do your Homework or play outside , then , you get start getting bored . There is that phase when you feel as if Time is going by slowly, you check your watch twice every minute or so and you want to do something. This span of moments , as no great man once said , gets you thinking more clearly on a seemingly trivial thing than you normally would. The mind “searches” for information from weird sources .
There was this day long back when I had nothing to do for a few hours as I was away from my HQ. No computers to play around and code some apps for personal use . I couldn’t find any sort of literature to read as I was miles away from a homely environment/newspaper stand , I had friends who were busy that day and the GPRS service on my cell-phone wouldn’t work. I had absolutely nothing on my mind. Had it been occupied at that time , it wouldn’t have allowed me to think of “Cloud Computing” as a basis for the Major Project for my college curriculum . Observe the tendency of the human mind to get thinking when there is nothing to think. If it would have been any other day in the park, I would have procrastinated to even think about what I am going to do the next week , leave the next semester project .
I guess getting bored lets creative things flow . You start to look into things more deeply , analyze every aspect and even question the obvious and the well theorized . Einstein would have had many such days at a stretch and so would have Newton. #Just_thinking . The traits of this can also be seen in the prehistoric days.
Imagine the prehistoric man in the form something similar to an ape. He had nothing to do but play around with his family and eventually got too much of it and hence got bored . Then came the inventions to play around with Animals - the nicely groomed sticks and clubs and started running around in the Forest . This straightened his posture as well as got his legs’ muscles strong. What is more intriguing is the discovery of fire. Yes , it was an accident and what I think is , that Man got bored of playing with sticks and adopted Flint stones instead. This lead to cooking ( The “Mommy , I am bored of eating raw flesh everyday” thing. ) . See it might be Necessity that is the mother of invention but not always.
As days passed , the prehistoric man got bored of wearing tree barks and animal skin and found out a way to stitch , weave and his posture got straighter as he was bored of walking with a hump on his back and we have the “homo- erectus” and gradually the “ homo- sapiens” .
I have started becoming a fan of getting bored. Necessity says “Adapt or find a way,you prick !!” but these valuable moments of having nothing on your mind say “ Hey this seems cool , let me venture more into it” and eventually you end up inventing something or the other.
Even the Yoga Gurus spread the same thought. They tell you relax , let go off everything from your mind. I have read about some camps where you can’t speak with anyone . (Hey is this article making a serious note here ? ) They tell you to meditate for an hour or so in an empty room so that you don’t get distracted. You begin to look for things to interest you but in vain. Then, if you religiously carry it along for a few more ticks of the clock , a time comes when you attain “Dhyana” …. or so they say in an enchanting way.
A careful observer would say that it is precisely the thing I have been saying all along this article. Actually, all they do is get you bored. Now folks , those who said this word didn’t feature in their Dictionary , better add it – It is the cool thing now .
And by-chance if you have read till this “comma”(,) Congratulations , you’ve got bored !!
- Vandit.
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wat a post man.. story started from something nd ends in somewhere... were u in ur sense when u were writing this stuff...
@cool1989 yes. This theory is unified and explains everything. Right from evolution to inventions to yoga. Name it. :)
Actually, this pearl of literature is an outcome of me getting bored.