These are very subjective matters. And sometimes you are just exhausted and you only want to decompress without thinking. Watching TV, TikTok, aimlessly browse the internet are all great ways to do so.
Watch television geared towards old people or young children sometime. It’s engineered to grab passive attention and the active content is ads.
It’s easy to see the effects on people. Little kids will go crazy to obtain some product. The older people face a more insidious marketing message - fear.
Anything that is not bringing you closer to experiencing one of those moments is a waste. Spending more effort than what is necessary in pursuit of those moments might also be a waste, especially if the payoff isn’t worth it.
Therefore, you should setup your life so you can experience as many of those moments as possible. Money is the common tool of achieving a life of endless experiential opportunities. But it’s not enough, you must also learn to greatly reduce or eliminate all responsibilities as well so you can live freely. You must be financially independent, location independent, and ideologically independent. Only then can you truly stop the waste of life.
Some people are so bound to a time and place, a source of income, a way of thinking, that they will be lucky if they ever experience a single moment in life that is not a wasted.
If anyone wants to consider parts of their life a waste, let them do so, it's only their business.