"An idle mind is a devil’s paradise". And any one who wouldn’t want to be in that state of ennui would keep themselves busy doing something. However recent research has proved boredom leads to creativity. Some of the path breaking scientific discoveries was a result of purely bored minds.
For example, take the case of Albert Einstein. Once, he was travelling with his wife in a carriage. His wife was fast asleep .Having nothing to do, he gazed out of the carriage absentmindedly at the landscape, the moving hedges and trees, relative to the carriage. It was then an idea struck his mind. He developed on it and thus was born the theory of relativity. If he was forever dissolved in his books (or always busy with his wife), would his busy mind be able to think out of the ordinary?
Newton definitely had to be jobless enough to sit under an apple tree and gauge what caused the apple to fall down. Had it not been for his joblessness then, we wouldn’t have been able to credit him with the discovery of gravity- the most fundamental aspect of planetary bodies.
Poets, artists, and of course writers are forever considered lazy souls always doing nothing . However the works born out of these devil’s paradises are considered masterpieces.
So enjoy the state of nothingness and let creativity spring forth from it.
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Devil's workshop maybe? Devil's paradise's just oxymoronic.
@post: Nicely done! Very idle-istique
An idle mind is a devil's paradise and let truth be told, i hate any other creatures infesting my mind especially the devil. Some people have resorted to keep themselves busy by doing this but i or rather my mind constantly escapes into voids of nothingness . What keeps me company there i have no idea. All i do know is that some people have given me good practice for that under the name relax.Trying hard to keep the devil at bay i have ended using my fingers hoping that keeping fingers busy is equivalent to keeping the mind busy. Yet my fingeers yearn to go faster than their current typing speed. And faster than the fastest is a challenge for my fingers. Anyway the devil is a cunning clever witty fella who just loves to pounce on you when you are least expecting it. Thats why I don't even know what i am doing and ultimately am capped in a cloud of depression.
well tht comment shud have gone down as a blog ammu. :) n tht phrase abt idle mind being a home to the devils is only wen a person is pessimistic in life.
all the poets artists n scientists were curious n imaginative n filled with such positivity tht masterpieces were inevitable. if a person during these idle times do something outta the usual curriculum, whether productive or nonproductive, its still positivity.
but wen u look at the productiveness of wat u have done during ur idle time then ur tryin to find out the benefits of wat u have done. thts wen a person becomes goal oriented. and as humans we all want more than wat goal we have already achieved n ur bound to get depressed wen the target aint achieved.
so during ur idle time forget targets. do something small, something tht u have always wanted to do, n then who knows, maybe an apple mite fall on ur head too :)
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