20 minutes of nothing

I found this to be extremely difficult; I'm sure many others would agree. All I could think about for the first five minutes was about things I'd rather be doing. This was really frustrating me so I tried concentrating on school and what I needed to do. This also began to frustrate me as I couldn't beging to do anything. ^_^ After this, I basically let my mind wander and started fantasizing about winning the lottery and what I would do with the money. This pretty much passed the remainder of the twenty minutes.

There were a couple things I noticed during the twenty minute stint. I became very self aware of my body. I felt my heart beat and the blood pulse through the veins in my arms. I think that, also, if I were to practice something like this it would greatly increase my capacity for patience, of which I seem to have little. I image the the adventurers of old were great at telling themselves stories and fantasizing about whatever. I can't really imagine what other ways one would use to pass the time being completely unable to do anything. Kudos to our forefathers.

It seems today's society is stock-full of things to grab our attention, at any given moment. With this we were raised. I can see the point, now, that was made in class on Wednesday; we are completely unaccustomed to boredom and have no idea what to do with it.