Daily writing prompt
How do you waste the most time every day?
Hmm.. It is quite an interesting topic to delve into, but the facts might hurt my feelings. It is truly gonna hurt, as i am about to spill things, which my inner soul might never even think of entertaining. Between the first stretch in the morning from my bed, with a wake-up alarm, to the final stretch, i do give up my view of the world through my palm-held rectangular window, i wonder where my time is being stolen.
I feel like I fall into various categories from a reluctant person to a rebel when it comes to various tasks i undertake throughout my whole day. Some i do out of necessity, since there are none other to get it done, and also i enlisted it as a part of my daily duties ever since I believed that it is my social responsibility(which is indeed toxic). Other than that, amidst all these, i answer to my simple pleasures and give up on a lot many things, not because i want to do that way, merely because I am reluctant.
Who is quietly stealing away my time?
I often wonder where this is leading. I do many things, cook, clean, work, just handle a couple of things here and there – but where do i get to enjoy something that I truly should?
Quiet time leaks
Most of the time, i end up falling into the trap of -“just one more….” be it reels, food, chats, ….anything for that matter. And what do i earn from it, precisely nothing that benefits me? Even then, I resort to repeating the same mistakes every other day. My consistency on the same is skyrocketing indeed.
Lost in time, i tend to loop my tasks, like re-reading the same paragraphs multiple times, since the moment i try to focus, there my mind goes – out and about- as if it has something to accomplish, which I am unaware of. The moment my mind is battling to convince me to get on to the yoga mat, my “just one more movie or reel” jumps in, and there goes all that motivation i gathered in, down the drain. All the things I do are much more like procrastination in disguise.
Consequence
Not sure, what I get in doing all these, it’s never fulfilling, but it’s peaceful. It satisfies the piece of me, who wants to stay calm, unnoticed, introverted and hidden from the world for some reason. We all are afraid to discover our true selves for some or the other reason.
Now;
I am living in the now.
It’s not easy to ward off a habit that I cultivated in the long run, to escape from the hassles of my life. Hence, the solution i discovered was to make use of the now. Like, if i feel like writing, i write then and there. If i feel like taking a walk, i just step out and get it done, … and so on.
The power of now, is helping me to waste less avoiding my time in my life and spend more by inhabiting it.
Tender Chaos 