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metabolizm
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To those of you who have found yourselves with more free time than ever over the last few months: have you struggled, as I have, to figure out how best to use this time? I often become paralysed by sheer indecision, not knowing what to do with myself, or rather not being able to navigate through all the potential uses of my time. I could learn something - but there is so much to learn, where do I start? I could try to write, but I have no ideas. I'll frequently end up online, mindlessly browsing the internet, because at least that alleviates the pressure of having to come to a decision. But of course this ends up making me feel like crap.
Does anyone else relate to this experience? Have you found a way through it?
An abundance of free time should be a wonderful thing - there is so much to learn, after all - and on some level I think that if it instead it leaves you in a paralysed mess like this, it points to something deep that should not be ignored. I remember the writer Cormac McCarthy saying that he's not been bored for 50 years, and that made an impression on me, given how often I experience boredom. When you consider the richness of the world, and of experience, boredom seems almost an absurd insult to the universe.
Does anyone else relate to this experience? Have you found a way through it?
An abundance of free time should be a wonderful thing - there is so much to learn, after all - and on some level I think that if it instead it leaves you in a paralysed mess like this, it points to something deep that should not be ignored. I remember the writer Cormac McCarthy saying that he's not been bored for 50 years, and that made an impression on me, given how often I experience boredom. When you consider the richness of the world, and of experience, boredom seems almost an absurd insult to the universe.
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