Don’t tweet your boredom, get rid of it.

Jasmine Romero / Staff Writer

Every day, I go on Twitter and Facebook to check my messages and see if there’s anything worth investigating in the Newsfeed. Usually there are memes, a picture from Humans of New York and angry political statements. Those are all fine and dandy, but then there is the inevitable, groan-inducing “I’m bored” status.

I feel like I need more social media accounts to look at because mine are getting old and nothing’s exciting anymore. #bored

— kate † (@katelynnshannon) September 8, 2014

don’t know what to do today #vacation #bored

— Louise (@weezie2243) September 15, 2014

The one night I’m home there’s nothing to do #bored September 14, 2014

When I’m bored I go from Instagram to twitter to snapchat . Then repeat lmao #Bored September 10, 2014

Really? You’re “bored?”

Please. This is 2014, if you haven’t noticed. If you’re telling me you’re actually sitting in your room as still as a statue because there’s “nothing to do,” you’re wrong. You have television, you have games, you have sports, you have books and you have the internet. There is always something to do. There are a myriad of things in this world to unearth.

Watch a French film about gangsters. Read about the newest technologies. Plan a trip somewhere. Get out of your comfort bubble.

There is no point in tweeting about what you had for breakfast. There is no point in whining about not having something to do as you look for shapes in the ceiling. You could be hanging out with someone or creating something. We have 3D printers, for God’s sake. You can print objects. You can print a mini couch. You can print a life-size couch if you put the time into it. You can make them polka-dotted and green. You can open your own green, polka-dotted couch business. You don’t have to go to IKEA ever again.

If you don’t know how to print couches, learn. No, but seriously, just learn something new. Don’t let yourself believe you’ll suck at something when you haven’t even tried it. You probably will suck the first time. Then you won’t — if you keep trying. You have the power to prevent your life from sucking. It’s all in your hands. Stop complaining about your boredom and go get inspired.

I understand that you may not have money. Get a job. You may not have a car. Get a bike. The worst excuse is that you have no time. Nothing valuable comes easy, and if you want something to happen, you sacrifice what you have to in order to get it. Honestly, when you genuinely want something, all the obstacles you need to endure won’t even feel like obstacles to you, because you’re too busy wanting your goal to even care. That’s how I felt when I started building my own websites.

I was so determined to have my own space on the Internet that I plowed through all the tutorials. I had to learn HTML and CSS to make a page. So I did. I got to my goal, instead of sitting around fooling myself into thinking there was nothing to do.

There are so many exciting things happening right now, but you refuse to acknowledge that. The key is to get yourself moving. Everything great that could happen to you is waiting, if you listen to the knocks on the door and open up.

jasmine.romero@fiusm.com