As an adult in general, time needs to slow the fuck down.
IMO: pack as much of your day with “active novelty” as you can. Even if it’s small stuff.
Kids experience time more slowly because everything is new to them. As adults, much of our world becomes familiar and, frankly, forgettable. It’s the lack of newness that lets time just pass by in our minds since the day’s memories get pruned to hell, letting entire days just get black-holed.
So my advice is do more than just touch grass; live life fully. Don’t just follow your favorite streaming programs, engage with other fans. Get out and join a club. Go to more parks, museums, live shows, craft fairs, summer festivals. Invest in the people in your life. Host and attend more movie nights, cocktail mixers, holiday parties. Listen to new music, listen to new podcasts, read new books. Double-down on hobbies or take on new ones. Finish projects on that todo list. Engage with nostalgia, but mix it up with new things too. Find new challenges and try new things to make sure that is or isn’t for you.
I like to add: switch to a job where you will meet new people on a regular basis. (:
Another thing you can do is to actually feel your feelings. Listen to how fucking bored you are. Sit in it, feel it, breathe it in, metabolize it, process it, and then fix it. If you had a billion dollars, what would you do?
Should really be
November 31st November 32nd November 33rd November 34th December 5th December 25th
There’s also that weird week haze between the 25th and the 1st where copious amounts of cheese counts as a valid breakfast
