Secret games to play when you're bored in public
This article by Holly Gramazio suggests several ideas for games you can play alone or with friends while in public. My favorite of the lot was posted by a Redditor, and seems like a great way to feel more positive about the world:
When I'm out in public or driving or something, I like to pick a person within my sight and imagine how they're somebody's FAVOURITE person, and if that somebody could be where I am in that moment, they'd be overjoyed to see them. I imagine how that person might joke around, or I think about the nice things they might do for their friends or family, and I wonder if there's someone across the country that wishes more than anything that they could be as near to that stranger as I am now.
Check out more ideas here and here.
(Article via RPS, The Card Players by Lucas van Leyden via Wikipedia.)
(My partner and I have a new, stupid game that makes us smile--when we're watching sports together, we add an "N" to players' last names.)