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[magiaburst]

2 years and counting...

Happy birthday, I Saw The TV Glow.

[study-princess]

For most of my adult life, I have thought that if I'm not making pesto from scratch, I could at least do some yoga, and if not yoga, I could at least write a quick blog post. In many ways, I make decisions based on how the choices and outcomes might affect my résumé of life.   For many of us, this drive to leverage every moment eventually gave rise to an obsession with life hacking and a pursuit of ever more complex, arcana, and counterintuitive methods to accomplish what we probably know how to do already. Not only should we fill our off-hours with photo-worthy pursuits, but those pursuits should be awe-inspiring. If we can't get our friends to "like" our hobbies, then what's the point? (...)   In many ways, I think we've lost sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness, but those two things are very different. Leisure is not a synonym for inactive. Idleness offers an opportunity for play, something people rarely indulge in these days. (...) Our hobbies have become goals. Our homes have become offices and our free time is not free. These are some of the changes that have occurred over the past two hundred years. (...) The question we must answer is: Where is the line? How are helping ourselves, and how are we hurting?

Celeste Headlee, from Do Nothing, How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving