Worthwhile Ways To Spend Your Time

 Worthwhile Ways To Spend Your Time

because I forget all my options and get trapped just mentally going in circles of worry or stress until I get exhausted and feel useless

Dear Self:

JUST PICK SOMETHING

Love,

me

Protect Your Future (mostly because you have to)

• Make an income
• Find a job/work
• Make something that will lead to an income
• Invent something
• Put together survival strategy/plans/kits
• Figure out what you really want/need/think/believe and if different now than what you thought before

Do something you love

• Anything that brings you some kind of joy, peace, pleasure, good feeling
• Listen to music/Sing/Make up songs
• Draw/"Do an art"
• Dance
• Sleep
• Eat
• Drink something caffeinated
• Masturbate (if this bothers you, for the sake of humanity, grow the fuck up please)
• Love someone or something
• Play a videogame
• Read/Write poetry/stories (includes movies/tv/slam poetry)
• Psychoanalyze popular culture
• Watch The Take (https://www.youtube.com/c/thetake/videos)
• Does social media count as living? I hope so.
• Fantasize about driving on an empty highway with the music up and a cigarette in hand (fantasize because you don't have a car and you quit smoking thanks to COVID)
• Remember what you loved about the world before COVID ruined it

Self-Therapy

• Get out ideas/feelings (write/audio recording/artz/whatever)
• Organize yourself in a way that would be easier to explain to other people
• Make lists so your brain isn't overloaded with the clutter of your thoughts

Archive

• Write/audio record/save files and articles for data/history/record keeping

Clean

• Top to bottom: just clear everything off, wipe it down, wipe down the surface, put it back
• Do the laundry
• Vacuum (now that you can! yay!)
• Put on your face masks, bring the lysol, and take out the goddamn trash (you can do it)

Exercise/Fitness/Health

• Cannabis (RSO) treats PTSD, reduces inflammation, and potentially shrinks cancer cells, so yes it counts (if you can get some)

Spread love and enlightenment

• For friends/family (if you have any)
• Community
• Online
• Make something a little better than it was
• Take whatever pisses you off, terrifies you, or makes you sad and imagine what could be done to fix it

Learn something

• New
• Get better at a skill
• Update yourself on the most current information on any given topic
• Expose yourself to another opinion or perspective (even if it's just to better argue against it)
• On the other hand, always open yourself up to the idea you might be wrong or not have known the whole story about something
• Refresh and remember

Activism/Protest/Global citizenship

• Watch/Read/Share local/national/global news
• Sign and share petitions (from reputable sites)
• Seek out good opinions and people who care 
• Be the hope you need to exist in the world

If all else fails, just love your cat

• Kinda hate Freud, but he did say "time spent with cats is never wasted" - though according to freud.org.uk: "Where did Freud say: 'Time spent with cats is never wasted'? Although this quote is widely attributed to Freud on quotation websites, there is no evidence that he ever said it. He did, however, write to his friend Arnold Zweig: “I, as is well known, do not like cats”. He was more of a dog person."
• Hey, look! I learned something! And I made a list. [bitter]Sweet. Shit is already coming up roses.

(just my opinion - preliminary list - will update)