What a Waste of Time

So right now, as of writing this, it is Saturday, February 23. It is 9:41 p.m. I got on my laptop around two hours ago (it was probably around 7:30) to accomplish the simple task of writing my blog entry for the week. I was having a little trouble thinking of something to write about and I got a little bored sitting, staring at the blank document in front of my face. So, I did what many of you would have also done in a similar situation, I got on facebook. Then, after I got bored with Facebook, I just surfed on the internet for a while. Then I remembered the reason that I had gotten onto my laptop in the first place, I needed to write my blog entry. Being the profound person that I am, I googled “life lessons”. There were some good suggestions brought up in the pages of results, however, none of them really struck me as something I need to learn to do or be better at. So I thought about it, and I decided to write on the topic of wasting time. And just to be clear, I don’t think that wasting time is always a bad thing. But if you do it too much it can be a bad thing and, in this case, for me, when I am trying to finish homework, it can become problematic.

This is something that I definitely need to work on. After picking my topic, I was thinking about how I waste time. Normally I waste time doing things like checking my Facebook account, watching TV, and playing video games. Almost all of the things involve the use of technology. I find it very ironic but, technology, with all of its time saving benefits that it brings to the table, opens up countless ways for us to waste time away doing things that bring no substantial benefit.

Anyway, take a computer for example, it can make the task of looking up information on a topic almost instantaneous. However, it can make a simple thing of writing 500 words for a blog post take way longer than expected. Right now, it is 10:00. Had I started writing as soon as I got on my computer, I could have done many other things tonight that I think would have been better and more fun than just sitting at my computer checking my facebook and surfing the internet.

I think that I would be more content if I limited the amount of time that I spent on my computer each day. By no means, am I a person who can sit at a computer all day long, but I think that I do use it a bit excessively. There are just so many other things that I could spend my time doing that are more rewarding, such as spending time with friends and family, or doing things outside. I finished writing this blog post at 10:11 p.m. Had I not waste so much time, I probably would have written on a different topic, but I would have been done a long time ago.