Free time?

[Rated E]

^ nice post!

 

[RobotRipping]

^all great points above, but aren't all those activities enhanced/more fun while being high ? lol

 

[lynziwow]

I second the reminder that you live in SF! Get a bicycle. Even if riding intimidates you, ride through GGPark on Sundays when it is closed to traffic. The ride from the panhandle to the ocean is relatively flat and rewarding. This is a wonderful city to obsess over coffee and food. Read funcheapsf.com, always good stuff to do on there. Just get outside and walk around. So much to see and do in this town.

 

[GOM]

Learn a new language! I agree with Frankie, don't turn your brain off. Keep learning and exploring.

 

[LOGan1314]

omg i battle this all the time....that is why i work as much as i can and exercise...these two things tend to keep my mind off of the bad stuff

 

[geoffreychaucer]

I thought about this question a lot once when I was tripping and came to the conclusion that, if anything, striving for better health should always be one's past time. I would suggest make eating healthy and fun exercise your pastime. Eating healthy includes shopping for healthy food, looking up recipes, cooking and then of course eating what you cook. This can take up a lot of your time, its fun and it benefits you. In addition, pursuing some sort of fun exercise will improve your body and mind while occupying time. I think most people have at least at one time struggled with free time. But with direction and a little motivation you can make better use of free time and feel better.

 

[Bricheta_albastra]

having too much free time is wholly possible, trust me. my entire life IS free time, and it starts to suck after a while. there are only so many shows you can watch before you run out or only a certain amount of drugs you can do till you start loosing your mind from sheer boredom, or only so many crafts that you can do before it all starts to seem like shit. i dont do anything except watch movies really. hence why im asking others. i dont really have any hobbies, thats why i started doing drugs in the first place, but i'm starting to see that thats my main problem.

Having too much free time is impossible. I used to play video games surf the net all day and play chess and be bored out of my mind. Now I read (the list of books I want to read is growing faster than my ability to read them), go out and socialize, watch movies, search for new music, meditate unicycle, juggle and have started learning some simple percussion instruments, although all my time is free time I feel I don't have enough of it. I still play videogames but only if they tax my logic skills like Braid or Portal or Myst, i still surf the net but a lot less and try and do it productively and I still play about 15 minutes of chess a day.

I suggest you pick up a extreme sport (skateboarding BMX, street unicycle etc), it's a good way to make friends, a good source of adrenaline and exercise and you get to feel better about your self because you see the progress. Start doing something that improves either your dexterity coordination balance or logic skills, to me visible progress is addictive and fun. Keeping track of what I've read played listened to and watched also helped me stick to it because it gave this feeling of progress, sure I was partly tricking myself into it but whatever. I used to be obsessed with RPG's now I've turned myself into one.

 

[slimvictor]

I don't have enough time for most of my hobbies.
I make sure to do meditation, yoga, weightlifting, and other exercise regularly.
I don't really consider that time to be "free" time, since it is essential in my life.
If I finish all this, and my work, and still have time, I make music on my laptop, play drums or guitar or bass, write poetry, draw, or paint.
I do not have a TV. Because of this, I am sure that I have much more "free" time than I would otherwise.

Oh yeah, I also work in my free time. My job is to learn and to teach, and I love my job beyond any possible description. So reading more, and learning more, is incredibly enjoyable to me, and it counts as work.

 

[attempt4]

Free time is the greatest of all. You are already making a colossal mistake by viewing it as burdensome.

Time is not something you need to fill. Time should fill you.
Only in our free time do we have limitless opportunity to broaden our horizons, grow as a person, develop and flourish. It is utterly invaluable.

I would absolutely recommend meditation as something to immerse yourself in during free time. Study it, learn about it, practice it. The calming benefits will trickle through into your everyday life. This can help you learn more about yourself, life and how we live it.
Weightlifting/general exercise are also fantastic ways to use free time. This can help your mental state and obviously the physical benefits are contributive to a healthier state of being.

Those two, right there are, in my mind, the most useful ways to utilise that beautiful, all-too-rare commodity known as 'free time'.

Learn about things. Explore your environment. Explore your consciousness. Delve into the many worlds awaiting your curiosity.

 

[euphoria]

^Truth...

After all, nothing is something worth doing.

 

[jazzbrain44]

Spend my time with my family, watching movie,playing cricket.
I wish my entire life was free time.