Just Bought Some Ink

Does your day-to-day look like this? Wake up, make breakfast, drive to work in intolerable rush hour traffic, get to the office at 9am, attend meetings, respond to never-ending emails, have lunch at 12pm, get back to the grind at exactly 1pm, go home at 5pm, scroll on your phone or watch TV while eating a microwave dinner out of exhaustion, stress about all the unfinished tasks you’ve left at work, and finally, go to bed to repeat the same thing the following morning. What do you think is wrong with this typical day-to-day life? Sure, there’s nothing so bad about it. It’s stable; it pays the bills and keeps a roof over your head. However, how does going through this schedule for five days a week for the rest of your life going to make you feel? I believe this sort of schedule kills your spirit of creativity because you don’t have time to experience a deep sense of boredom or reflect on your actions and the direction in which your life is moving. But, you might ask, why should I reflect...

Boredom is a motivator. It drives people to think up something new to alleviate the feeling of aimlessness and restlessness that characterizes boredom. Time vs Biological Cues Humans today use time to gauge when tasks should be worked on or completed. Time decides where one should switch tasks. Time is standardized, and everyone knows what a minute, second, hour, day is. However, what did people use to govern their lives before the construct of time was invented? I think people used to rely on nature, external and internal cues to decide when to switch tasks; decide when to eat, sleep, spend time with friends and family, or hunt. Hunger decides when an ancient man must eat; tiredness, when he sleeps. Those are some examples of natural internal cues that drive human actions before the concept of time was known. Time vs Nature Natural external cues include seasons and weather. The sun decides when one must sleep because humans never evolved night vision. Seasons decide if it’s time to ha...