Re: Re: Reassess time spent enjoying luxury

So, I read this blog by Joel which was talking about This post by Steve and thought, why not continue on the chain.

Now my circumstances are pretty different from both of theirs, I live alone, so technichally I can do whatever I want to, whenever I want to. I also live a really long way away from family and so on, so for me the thing hogging my time is mostly work.

So every day goes in a pretty normal pattern over the week, I’m one of those people that Joel is talking about that work on block times, mostly for the weekdays everything goes in the same pattern, I work, I get home, relax a bit, eat supper, and then I have a block of 2 hrs of reading before I go to sleep, and repeat the next day, I also have set days for everything, so I shop groceries on monday, get my nicotine pouches on friday, and so on. I find the patterns comfy, since I don’t really have to think, and decide things (which I really don’t like much at least with time pressure). And that’s basically it for the week days.

Then friday and weekend comes around and turns everything on it’s head, I don’t have obligations, so I can stay up a bit longer, and I can do some other things, one of the luxuries that I enjoy the most is just taking a really long walk, most of my saturdays is a 30 km or so walk listening to some podcasts, and just enjoy moving, looking at the really nice views around here (Living right next to the Alps really have some nice perks some times) listening to podcasts and letting my mind wander. It’s just nice knowing I can keep on walking as long as I want to, and I don’t really have to talking with people and other things that can be hard and bothersome at times.

Mostly I don’t read that much over the weekend, unless I’m really into my current book, which happens, which means that the weekend reading usually because of that is more joyous, and I have good memories to it. I really like Fridays and Saturdays, because they are my me-days, where I can do stuff I want to, sunday is less great, everything is closed, and I still have to go to bed early to get started with the week again.

I luckily never got into ticktock or youtube shorts, and I don’t really have much algorithmic media in my life any more, but I still some times get into a youtube rabbit hole where I watch a lot of videos on a topic, mostly weekends are the time where I watch the long form videos that I didn’t get around to watching over the week, since my time is a lot more limited then.