I am a really boring person sometimes. I can fill days and weeks with watching reruns of old tv shows while sitting on my couch. Forget nail biting, or neglecting laundry. This is my worst habit, wasting time. What’s worse than just wasting the time is that I complain that nothing exciting is happening in my life while I sit around at home watching TV.
News flash! Nothing fun and exciting is going to happen to you while you’re sitting on the couch.
There isn’t a secret patrol of super fun people going door to door wanting to make friends or date you. You’ve got to get out of your comfort zone, go and do something new that you’ve never done before. Great moments in your life are always a little scary. This is life right now, this moment. “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
Sometimes you have to travel a path, any path, just to do something. It may not be the right thing, but you have to get started somewhere.
Occasionally you’ve got to be a “little” irresponsible to make life fun again. Go insane for a day, just to make the normal days have good contrast. Do something wacky or dumb. You don’t have to be extravagant to get your perspective back, you just have to get out and experience something.
Go to lunch or coffee with a good friend and have a great conversation. Really engage, don’t just wait for your turn to talk
Get stark raving drunk with some friends
Go see a crappy movie you would never otherwise see
Find some local event that’s happening and go to it
Follow an adventure. Say yes when you would normally say no.
The point is that when life gives you an opportunity, take it. Odds are you won’t be blowing up the Death Star or facing off against giant alien robots, but you could be in for a great adventure. If nothing else, remember this, “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
***Full Disclosure: I sat around my house watching like 4 hours of Arrested Developement on Netflix streaming before hammering out this article, sorry but I wallow in hypocrisy. I occasionally take my own advice though. ***
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