May 11, 2025 by HTV9
This is partially what the whole upcoming book is about. So it’s a bit of a preview.
If you’ve ever been sick or laid up in bed for any amount of time, you’ve probably tried the usual ways to entertain yourself, such as TV, books, writing, texting, and magazines. Here are some others.
– Studying meteorology and then carefully observing the sky world outside the window. Birdwatching lore and airplane lore can also come in handy here
– Reading manga or comic books
– Playing the minigames within video games, if a friend or family member can get you to that area
– Playing immersive video games if you have the energy, because it seems the human mind functions better if it thinks you’re still fully mobile. Seems to help most to play a variety of these. How I like to play them best, having not grown up with video games, is to see if I can apply any information I learn within them to my everyday life. It’s been surprisingly helpful so far
– Whistling, especially if you didn’t know how before
– Quality time snuggling a pet
– Making and using a bucket list, and dividing it up into stuff you can do on days like this and stuff you would like to do eventually. Then doing stuff you can do on days like this, on days like this
– Figure out fun stuff to do with friends and family, using books published prior to about 2000, because able-bodied status aside, lots of folks actually forgot how to have fun together without TV, video games, and screen time. For instance, various card games can be cliche, as can various board games, but there are some lesser-known ones that are really interesting and fun. Eating meals together is super underrated.
– Figuring out what you even like to do in your spare time, which is different for everyone. It really helps to scour the internet and libraries for ideas. Also, certain kinds of fiction can contain a great deal of inspiration. In particular whatever you gravitate to in order to blow off steam or whatever is considered a treat for you is something you gotta pay attention to. It can take years to figure this out but then you can make a point of doing this as often as possible
– Brainstorming about various kinds of badges in the scouts/scouting world (and it is worldwide, scouting is international and has many organizations) and how you could potentially adapt them for your situation, thus completing them eventually. A computer file is invaluable here, as staring at this thing and thinking about it can be surprisingly productive and you can edit it as much as you want
– Finding new and unusual ways to celebrate every single holiday, including the strangest and most obscure ones
– Micro meditation, as in, meditation for the time it takes to have three full breaths or something like that
New Book of Days 
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