color! read! draw, doodle! listen to music - and only listen to music! or even listen to the conversations around you! people watch! journal, write! learn a craft - knitting and crocheting are relatively lowkey and easy to carry around! and, most importantly - be bored! let yourself sit in silence and see what comes up! make conversation with yourself! it's the airport, babey, no one's gonna care!
Jun 13, 2025
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look at a tree. draw something from life. do a puzzle or craft. write a letter by hand. spend a whole day of unstructured time with a friend. let yourself get bored enough to notice whatโs around you.
May 31, 2025
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Apr 3, 2024
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walk in nature, go to the park if possible. watch birds and other animals. take headphones and listen to some tunes if you'd like
Also I'd recommend journaling or taking up any sort of writing. I may be biased b/c half of what I've been doing with my time lately has been poem writing, but taking up creative writing is so fun and full of endless possibilities. Best part is you don't have to show anyone if you don't want to b/c at the end of the day, you're ideally doing it for the joy of creation and the love of the game.
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it actually isn't that bad!
for a recent assignment i had to go out and draw people in public - just simple gesture drawings, nothing major. and kept forgetting to bring my earbuds at first. i'd get frustrated, yeah, but not enough to go back in and grab them. so i dealt with the silence, and it actually wasn't that bad at all? i mean, i was going to cafes a lot so that helped, but also libraries? places specifically meant to be quiet? and it was great, to the point where i purposefully left my earbuds at home to finish my assignment today.
consider: going places without your earbuds/headphones on purpose
Jun 9, 2025
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seriously, if you haven't gone to your local library yet, you're missing out! i try to go every couple of weeks to return books and get more. while i love owning my own books as well, borrowing them from the library is great as well! not to mention what they do for ur local community, the resources they have, etc. all of this to say: go visit your local library!!!
May 29, 2025
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seriously! like put on some background music and just sit there with your thoughts. see what comes up. draw weird doodles, make a world for them, sing to them, whatever. just be weird and bored.
to go directly against what i just said, i have a small pocket notebook i collect quotes/thoughts/jokes/poems/etc that i enjoy, and i go through it sometimes instead of scrolling. it takes a little time to get it to a point where it's useable like that, but it's worth it! bonus points if you print photos out and put them in too, make it like an inspiration notebook.
Jun 10, 2025