How to Pass Time

Hmm.. I think many of us really dont have things to do when we want to kill the time. Isn't it?

In the movie 'Lakshya', there is a very small conversation between Hrithik Roshan & Priety Zinta. I dont know how many of us have noticed it, else how many of us have watched this movie. Well either the case, it goes something like this:

HR : Neha, Tu kya kar rahi hai? Mujhey bahut bore maar raha hai. Time hi nahi jaa raha hai!!
PZ : Karan how can you even say that ki tujhey bore maar raha hai. Agar deka jaye tho duniya mein inti cheezin hai ki sochney baito tho time hi kam padega. Aur tum boltey ho ki time nahi jaa raha hai. Disgusting.

By briniging this, what I want to convey is that Yes, there are 'n' no. of things in life to do, to think, to act upon. So there is no point that a human is feeling bored and wishes to kill his time!!!
Whether it be at a bus stop waiting a Bus, or waiting at the doctor's surgery, thumbing through countless old magazines, waiting to be called, our lives often seem to grind to a halt and all of a sudden we're acutely aware of the passage of time. Time seems to draaaaag and the hands on the clock hardly appear to move at all. We often say that we have 'time on our hands'. Well, if time is in our hands, how do we go about wringing its bloody neck? Isn't it..??

I will list some of my favourite passtime activities which I usually do when I really want to move on...

• I find a good way to pass the time is to look at people! I can't really explain it too well, but just look at a person, what they look like, what they're wearing, how they walk etc and just think that this person has a whole history and past life and thoughts etc and you just get so amazed about how many people there are that are all totally different. You sink into deep philosophical thought and time passes really quickly! Works for me anyway! Try it.
• If you have a few moments to spare (or the odd afternoon) try some peaceful meditation - it can be achieved without strange postures or chanting. It's just a way of being aware of the non-physical qualities we all have like love, self-respect and co-operation. Allow your real personality a few minutes to emerge, and draw strength from the stability that is part of the inner self.
• When killing time, how about thinking of various stratagems of how one can win noughts and crosses? You will lose against yourself and win against yourself.
• Think of a word or phrase, then another related to it, then one related to that one, and so on.
• Name a railway station and the next person has to name one beginning with the last letter of the last station you named. After a few attempts at this you will astonished at how many station you soon find that begin with K.
• Listing things mentally is the most effective time-waster... you're thinking of all the things you will do, one day, when you get around to it, and you're not worried about why you have time to kill - you can really let your mind go... Dream the impossible and formulate tuffest schemes to be done... tomorrow, of course.
  I usually kill time by making lists of everything I would do if I only had the time. I start with categorising the activities into work-related, home-related and personal. Then I list the activities, functions, hobbies and ideas in a random order - this usually will take up the time that I have to kill.
  In the event that I do still have some time left, I sort them in alphabetical order per category. Should I still need to kill more time, I proceed to prioritise them in order of preference, descending order of cost and ascending order of time necessary to plan and organise the activity...
• Get out a pen and pad of paper, write a nifty heading on the top, eg 'Plans for a Horror Film', 'Things I Must Do Tomorrow' or 'Why I Hate Yoghurt'. Then either fill out one sheet of the paper relevant to your heading or proceed to stare off into space for half an hour pretending to think about the list when actually you have completely switched off.
• While away waiting time by taking in everything about your surroundings - the buildings, the clothes people wear, the state of the roads. Then try to think about it, and why it got to be that way. It helps to while away the time, particularly when there is little else happening around - particularly useful in railway stations, for some reason.
• When it comes to killing time you cannot beat doinglittle jobs you keep putting off because they aren't really important, such as:
  -> Organise your book/CD/DVD/video/cassette collection into intuitive order (an order that is natural to you rather than in alphabetic order or other divisions), this is useful as every time you get a new book/CD/DVD/video/cassette it could require you to change the entire order. Which is a good thing... right?
  -> Looking for all those items you have lost over the years, irrespective of whether this is the house you lost them in.
  -> Deciding which games to take off your PC to optimise space when you have 30GB spare.
  -> Trying to organise that pile of mixed notes you never got round to sorting before your course finished.
  -> Starting to clean a room that you are loath to clean, which is also good inspiration for finding tasks to kill time.
• That's what I do. Hell, I even do it when I'm not trying to make time pass... For non-drummers, try replaying songs precisely in your head as you remember hearing them. When waiting for a bus for more than an hour, I often start talking to myself and doing strange voices. A few days ago I got so carried away with doing Himesssss Rimpressions that I gave myself a sore throat. huh..!!

Finally, Don't ever, ever, think about what it is you are waiting for, as Murphy's Law applies in all cases. The more you think about it, the slower the time goes!! The more time you have; the more you would like to waste it....!!