168 Hours in A Week: Near-ish End of Year Re-evaluation

Been over a month since my last post, so writing to let you know I have not abandoned the blog again, I have just been busy working on some writing projects such as a couple flash fiction pieces, novel outlining, and working on a short story in the Lancer setting.

If I was writing full-time, this would not be an issue, however for like many of us, it is not.

I have one-hundred sixty-eight (168) hours to spend a week.

Forty (40) hours is for work because I need to pay rent and pay car insurance.

Forty (40) hours should be for sleep.

Fifteen (15) hours is for improving my general health and maintaining it (exercise, showering, brushing teeth, biological stuff.)

Add this all together, more than half of my life is taken up by prior commitments, and that is not including commute times to and from work and gym, or other things going on in life.

Cooking for the week, is about five hours at most I think (thank god for meal prepping). 

One hundred hours per week is for just maintaining life.

Those remaining sixty-eight hours of the week I need to allocate to doing things that gives me actual, fulfilling joy, instead of just temporary happiness to fulfill the void. 

To put it bluntly, I miss creating and doing things instead of consuming things passively. 

That is the reason why I enjoy lifting weights, and running. It gives me the feeling that I am doing something besides rotting around.

Which honestly, those things, I have been lacking in actually doing. Honestly, it is a damn shame I have not been doing so. 

Hitting thirty in few months, and I don't want to start my thirties wasting my life, especially during my twenties I have been chasing after things I honestly couldn't obtain, and three of those years were destroyed by the fucking pandemic. 

So, for my thirties, I am actually excited for those years. See if I get what I want.

As while yes, the possibilities for the future narrow, I think I found myself again after all this time, and I know the general future forward, and who I want to become.

As for what this mean for the blog, I don't know, but we will see going forward. 

 Hopefully, I post more here.