Smartphones, notebooks, iPads. Gadgets, despite their productive side all serve a single purpose: keep us busy and occupied and happy. Whenever there's time to spare, we gladly turn to our little devices for entertainment.

Riding the subway it becomes very prominent. You see iPhones and iPads as far as the eye reaches, the occasionally smartphone from another brand, few books. Nobody just sits and endures the same boring routine of commuting to work or back.

Curiously most of the people are not even doing anything sense. They're browsing their music libraries, browse applications, stare at a news app that hopelessly tries to fetch latest news without coverage in the subway. It's a mere act of killing time, a desperate attempt of escaping boredom.

What we often underestimate is the creative power of being idle. When we've got nothing to do, have absolutely no distraction, our mind starts to wander and finds something interesting in normally boring things. That's when creativity springs. Get inspired by the things that happen around you, or if by yourself put an empty piece of paper in front of you. Without anything else around that might distract you — turn of all electronic devices, eliminate distraction. Try to fill the paper and observe how long it takes you before you grab a pencil and start creating. It doesn't matter what the outcome is, just let your mind rest, and pour content onto the canvas. Or sit still and simply don't do anything.

We may need to practice boredom for a while before we're able to review priorities of our non-digital life. But we'll have greater focus on the things we do and have more time for important things. Sans gadgets designed to rectify our lives.