Long winter evenings have never been my favorite thing, when boondocking. All I could do was waste time on the internet or read books. Perhaps older eyes just don't like reading in the evening. Or maybe I have had my fill of reading by evening.
The result was boredom and glumness. This was a serious problem for me. My solution was to go to bed early.
Some solution! It results in poor quality sleep. And who can sleep for 12 hours per night?!
Lately I have been experimenting with organizing things in the evening. Consider all the photographs stored on your computer. They need to be organized and culled. This ends up being fun because it gives you a chance to reminisce over your travels.
You could argue that you just have too many photographs to tackle in this manner. Then why not just throw them out? You are never going to look at them again, anyway.
Organizing is needed for the file structure on the laptop and the smartphone, as well.
There are physical things that need to be organized, too. Maybe I should select a new box or drawer every night, and go into "attack" mode.
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Let's assume this works as well as I hope it does. The more interesting question is, Why Didn't I Think of It Before?
Perhaps it was because of pretentiousness. Being retired and having dropped out of the rat race, one might feel sententious and preachy about doing more meaningful things with one's time. Mere organizational "housework" seemed too mundane for somebody with exalted pretensions.
But every year I continue to take up space on planet Earth and observe the human condition, I become more humble about the human condition, and more convinced that the best way to live life is to enthusiastically do what is actually doable, and stop pining for perfection or utopia.
The result was boredom and glumness. This was a serious problem for me. My solution was to go to bed early.
Some solution! It results in poor quality sleep. And who can sleep for 12 hours per night?!
Lately I have been experimenting with organizing things in the evening. Consider all the photographs stored on your computer. They need to be organized and culled. This ends up being fun because it gives you a chance to reminisce over your travels.
You could argue that you just have too many photographs to tackle in this manner. Then why not just throw them out? You are never going to look at them again, anyway.
Organizing is needed for the file structure on the laptop and the smartphone, as well.
There are physical things that need to be organized, too. Maybe I should select a new box or drawer every night, and go into "attack" mode.
_________________________________________
Let's assume this works as well as I hope it does. The more interesting question is, Why Didn't I Think of It Before?
Perhaps it was because of pretentiousness. Being retired and having dropped out of the rat race, one might feel sententious and preachy about doing more meaningful things with one's time. Mere organizational "housework" seemed too mundane for somebody with exalted pretensions.
But every year I continue to take up space on planet Earth and observe the human condition, I become more humble about the human condition, and more convinced that the best way to live life is to enthusiastically do what is actually doable, and stop pining for perfection or utopia.
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Maybe we do have some common DNA after all?!
All the best poets, philosophers and mystics insist that doing nothing is the best use of one's time on Earth.