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Anonymous
| Sorry if I'm repeating a former thread, but the Groundhog day routine is starting to realy get old. After a full work day you go to the gym, eating dinner around 8:30-9. You have 2 hours to relax, watch tv, read, go to bed, get up and do the exact same thing again. Same chores, folding laundry at 11:00 at night because it's the only time to do it. Weekends spent doing other chores, maybe a leisure activity or two. And all for what? How do you make your life more meaningful to yourself? |
Anonymous
| I have an hour a day to relax. You just do it, and enjoy your weekends and vacations. Try to steal as much joy as you can from your family, friends and faith. |
Anonymous
| Gym? What's that? With kids I don't have the luxury of hitting the gym after work. As far as the other stuff, it's part of being an adult. So when you do have free time, make the most of it. |
Anonymous
I thought the same thing. Two full hours, on top of going to the gym?? Heck, I have a huge list of hobbies I used to pursue with that kind of free time. Honestly, with flexibility like that, you are only in a rut because you put yourself there. Find some new interests, something to be passionate about, and do something towards that every night. You'll start feeling better immediately. |
Anonymous
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I hear you, OP, but I also had a recent health scare that nearly took my life. During that time (when it was touch and go) I longed for just a bit more of that routine stuff - a few more years, hopefully many more. I have a renewed sense of making the most of time with people (especially the kids) and not letting the little things (including work) get me down. Our time is so short, really. I felt like I really just wanted to be there to see stuff happen, to help my kids, etc.
Saying that, now that I'm through the health scare, I find myself getting back to the old 'grind' thoughts. It's a battle to will yourself through them. |
Anonymous
| OP do you have kids? I would love to go to the gym after work and would kill to have 2 free hours each night for reading, learning Spanish, knitting, catching up on filing, etc. . . But I can't, and that's okay, because the kids add more meaning and joy than all of that stuff would. |
Anonymous
| Leisure activity, you mean aside from running all over to various kid sports, birthday parties, etc? |
Anonymous
| Most chores are done on the weekend. Very few are done on weeknights. |
Anonymous
A massive waste of time. |
Anonymous
| Gym? HAHAHA. As it is, I get home at 6:15 with two starving kids. It is a mad rush with dinner, bath, and bed by 8:30 (often doing this alone.) I rarely don't have too much to do after the kids go to bed (laundry is done on the weekends, kids lunch is packed as I clean from dinner, house cleaners come 1x week, and kids have to put away toys before going to bed.) I guess I could learn Spanish from 8:30-10:30, but I am too damn tired. |
Anonymous
Do you have children? Work all day, hitting the gym, and THEN having two hours to relax sounds a lot like when I was single with virtually no responsiblities. Not sure how this is a Groundhag day routine... |
Anonymous
I work out on my lunch hour at work. |
Anonymous
| 1) Plan vacations! Looking forward to time off always helps! 2) Make the most of what time you do have. We're in the same boat OP...yes, we hit the gym 5-6 times/week for 2 hrs each day, with a 5 & 3 year old. They love going to the "kids' club" at the gym because they have friends there. We still attend karate, T-ball, b-day parties etc and use the half hour before we go to sleep every night to tell each other about our days. To keep the husband/wife spark alive, I text him as his "mistress" and he responds as my "lover" and we schedule a rendezvous later that night. I often say "if I only had more time"...but then realize that if I did, I'd probably fill it with other things to do. |
Anonymous
| we do fun stuff on weekends whenever we can - farmer's markets, street fairs, different parks, library events, children's theater events, live music. I try to plan one cool thing each weekend for my daughter. I also try to take advantage of my one night out with friends. (i'm a single mom so dad has the kiddo one night.) honestly, my life was a grind before i had kids too, except that I worked late most nights. being home instead of at the office till 10 is probably an improvement. |
Anonymous
| Consider a hobby outside of the gym, like an art class or dance class and if you have the opportunity to perform or exhibit your work it is really fulfilling. |