What was your life situation then? Were you independently wealthy or just basic income (as the author suggests)?
Were you looking forward to something? How did you break the circle?
Were you looking forward to something? How did you break the circle?
What did I do? To be honest, nothing. The only difference now is that I have a job and subtract those hours and I can fill the day with just the more meaningful pastimes on that list. No time left to squander.
I'm not much happier, but of course now I'm an accepted part of society, or is it rather that I'm now indifferent to society?
I was looking forward to things, but the things further away in the future felt so far away (and some still do) that procrastination build a wall around them. I always reached for immediate pleasure. Some of those pleasures are worth something (playing guitar, riding a bike, or as someone commented below just beeing at the beach), but of course worthless to society.
The more distant things I was looking forward to? Finding something I really enjoy doing for more than just a few hours, a real passion. Someone to share my time with. Love.
But as society dictates that you need to provide for yourself those things are unreachable as they either are impossible to reach if you commit to having a job due to having no time, or they are unreachable because you provide of no worth for a partner, or society in general. It even strained friendships even though it didn't affect those "friends" in any way I can imagine.
Heck, that's why its even a bit funny to me because now I'm "okay" in every way, but I'm still the same person. A women might fall in love with me, people accept my, my family accepts me, but the core of my personality is still the same. And because that is the truth I might end up the same if I ever had no job (or wouldn't need one). I guess getting rich (which won't happen but who knows) would be my downfall.
A friend who stayed in touch with me despite all this always said I had so much time to do whatever I wanted, yet I never done anything of value. And my answer to this is, time doesn't really matter. Willpower, passion, sacrifice, those things push you forward. The people who achieve the most don't have 32 hour days. They don't need them because they don't waste a minute.