Avoiding boredom

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For those who feel they have so much time on their hand at home, while waiting for the coronavirus to fade away, may I suggest a few ideas on how you can avoid boredom, or just watching TV, the Internet and or the clock ticking the seconds away.
1. Choose a person in your household to do something together, and you never know - you can get closer to each other, at least for a few days.
2. Clean up your room, or at least a corner that needs cleaning – you’ll be surprised how much stuff you have accumulated in your closets that you can dispense of.
3. Learn how to use the washing-machine – and hang the clothes to dry.
4. If you don’t know how, learn how to cook, and also wash the dishes after meals, to appreciate how much work your mother or wife does on a daily basis.
5. Wake up early and watch a sunrise – then try yoga, stretch and relax, meditate with some nice background music.
6. When summer comes, learn how to swim – and buy a snorkel and enjoy the beauty of the sea.
7. Learn some gardening tips, plant, weed, water, prune and enjoy nature in your own backyard.
8. Try drawing, with a pencil, charcoal, maybe watercolors or even collage.
9. When permissible, go out and be a tourist in your own town or village, and discover so many landmarks you often take for granted.
10. Read a good book, one that you always wanted to read but had no time for it.
11. Find a priest you trust and go to confession – maybe you can use him as a counselor in the future.
12. Find a chapel which is fairly quiet, and spend some time in silence, even reading from the Bible.