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Personal Narrative: Boredom

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Boredom, everyone knows the feeling, everyone has experienced this in their lifetime.
When you have nothing to do, no one to talk to, and just mindlessly sitting around all day waiting for something to happen. Well, I know this feeling all too well, in fact, this was me growing up. Until recently I always viewed doing nothing as a bad thing, and that’s what I was told, but now I know its not because it gives you the opportunity to think, it gives you the opportunity to know things you may have otherwise not known. I did this by discovering things off the internet, magazines, and newspapers. I believe that boredom is not necessarily a bad thing and it can shape the kind of person you are due to the things you can learn from it.
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My grandmother was a great woman who I loved very much, but being at her house all alone was not very fun. I always would beg my mom to put me on a sports team or in a club, but that was not realistic since there would be no one available to take me. After countless begging, my mom quit her job to stay at home. She wanted to be able to take me places like sports and other activities. I was so exited to be able to do these things, but after a few years, I began to grow tired of my activities, and told myself I needed a break. After a while, people, specifically my parents began to tell me that it was bad not to do anything and to have so much free time because it could lead to me doing criminal activities. I knew this wasn't me and continued to live how I wanted to, and it didn't turn out too bad.
With everything dropped, all of my extra activities finished, I had time to do many other things, and I turned to the internet to learn many new and exiting information. The internet is a great place, you can look up any thing and within seconds have thousands of results, and I used this to my advantage. One day, I was looking through the internet, and found a video of …show more content…

I learned that they are some of the smartest animals on earth, and there were many test and experiments to support this idea. They were discovered to have the intellect of a three to five year old child. Learning all of this great information fascinated me and
I practically became an expert. I then saved up my money from anything I had, from Christmas, birthdays, and more. Since these parrots are so rare, they are extremely costly. Once saved enough I squandered all my money and bought a brown headed parrot from an exotic bird store with hopes to train it. I did eventually train it, putting all of my knowledge to the test. Of course, this is just one of my major accomplishments of learning things from having too much downtime, I also learned many other things like drawing, animating, music, sewing, building things, cooking, and many more.
Finally, it turned out that having nothing to do gave me something to do. I learned things that I otherwise would have never learned from school and sports alone, I learned all types of useful skills in life, and learned trades that many do not know. This is how having too much free time defined who I am and what I know. This made me believe that boredom is not bad and

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