I’ve been thinking about time wasters and time savers lately, because of work, you know. No, not to figure out how to waste or save time at work-it’s part of what I help others learn about-how not to waste time and how to find ways to save time, you know, time management. (Clearly not word management since I used way more words than necessary to explain that.)
Tonight I dedicated to wasting time. I took a bunch of quizzes on buzzfeed. I now know so much more about myself. It has given me a similar feeling to when I have gone to lousy psychics. My career should have been professor (ironically enough I do work at a university). My psychic power should be psychometry. If I were an 80’s song I would be “Don’t Stop Believing” which I really don’t agree with-what are the other options for that quiz?
This truly wasted my time. Still, it was oddly relaxing. Less relaxing because the kittens don’t like the fact that I put them to bed earlier than they like to go to bed. They are meowing at the door but I can resist. Tonight I am not in the mood to pick up everything that currently lives on a shelf as they go about their nightly routine of knocking everything off of the shelves. I forgot how much work kittens require. And keeping the dog calm when the kittens get riled up is exhausting. Since the boys have yet to fall asleep (even though it is two hours past bedtime), I needed some quiet around me as I wasted time.
These quizzes are more fun for me to waste time than playing video games. I didn’t catch that wave at the right time and the controllers scare me. Yes, they scare me. I lack the dexterity of anyone even slightly younger than me. Reading isn’t a waste of time ever in my world and I had already read two more chapters of When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey so I felt good from that. I could have just done random searches on google, but the results sometimes are overwhelming. We searched images the other day for a project for older son. The search was for an image of “infection”. You’re going to google that right now, but I warn you it is gross.
Told you it was gross.
Anyway, I wanted to waste time tonight and see how it felt. Many would say binge-watching Law & Order SVU is a time waster-and it is. But I do at least have an emotional response and pick up tips about what not to let my sons ever do in their lives. If I am feeling something, responding to an attempt to evoke emotion, it feels less like a time waster. But who am I kidding, five hours of Law & Order is a time waster. The quizzes felt different though. I can’t remember them, I won’t remember them, and they added very little to my life. In other words, they were a waste of time. No offense to the quizzes, they were fun in the moment just no staying power. I made no connections. At least with television or film, I usually make a connection to a life experience, a book, a person, something.
I do try to live in the moment. Don’t always do a good job of it, but I don’t like to spend time on something that I know won’t have a lasting impact in some way, shape, or form for my existence. I guess I don’t like wasting time.
Well, gotta go. That new episode of The Following isn’t going to watch itself.
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