How to waste your life one day at a time
I had a great Saturday and followed it up with a stupid Sunday. On Saturday morning I set the alarm clock to wake up early, biked down to the Depot and took care of some Treasurer business. Then I rode the fixed-gear to the bank to make a deposit. I had so much fun doing that, I just kept on going to the river and rode the trail for a few miles. There were a few walkers on the path, but I didn't see another bike. I got to watch the sun rise on the way home.
That afternoon, my little brother came over to build a computer from the parts I ordered. That was fun, too. He got it all set up in a few hours and we went out for pizza at the Savoy. It was a great day. So what went wrong Sunday?
For some reason I thought it would be a great idea to spend the entire day playing games on my new computer. When I was a kid, my mom would cut our marathon gaming sessions short, and I always thought it would be awesome to play games until my fingers blistered and my eyes bled. It turns out she knew what she was talking about. It wasn't even a very relaxing way to spend the day, since I felt awful by the time I dragged myself away. I was useless for the rest of the night and went to bed early.
I'm trying to be more intentional about the way I spend my time, but old habits die hard. Maybe I just need to replace the old, bad habits with new ones. I hear that fix riding is addictive, and it did just get me on the longest ride I've done this winter, so I may be on to something. Now I need to increase the dose.
(UPDATE: I'm trying tags again, this time with del.icio.us formatting. It seems to do the trick for others; hopefully it will work for me.)
2 comments:
I find that wasting large amounts of time playing video games, watching movies, etc. isn't as fulfilling as it used to be either. It doesn't take too long before I start to feel guilty and that I should be doing something else.
There are a few exceptions though, like the first weekend we got DirecTV and watched roughly 30+ hours of television and ate Chex Mix. It felt like middle school again and I really enjoyed it.
If you'd been in Minnetonka you would've seen lots and lots of other cyclists. Though maybe not at sunrise. Later in the morning, though, there were tons.
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