Do you have any free time?

[librarius_qui]

Lets begin with this: do you have any free time?

How do you enjoy it?
If you don't, do you miss it?

[JBI]

No - every free minute is assigned to something - I actually descide to waste time on "what I should be doing" by doing everything else.

[Chava]

the split second between taking off my socks and going to bed, and falling asleep.

[JacobF]

Until recently I had very little free time. It was either spent at rehearsal or doing homework. But school's winding down for me now and the play I'm in has been performed, so I have quite a bit of free time.

I use it to read and write, mostly. I'll either read a novel or the news online, and write short stories when I feel the urge. I'll play video games, too, which I do more often with friends than when I'm alone.

[kilted exile]

If you dont enjoy your time (both at work & home) then things are pretty screwy - this is especially the case for people in college, I cant fathom how someone could pay to study a subject but not enjoy what they are learning. The same goes for work too, if you dont like the job you do do something about, sure there are always ****ty days when you are just fed up & dont want to be there - but these days are always out-numbered for me by the days that things are going well & I'm walking around smiling like an idiot all day long.

[Chava]

I certainly enjoy both my study and my job, and my various activities that I do inbetween that. Freetime would have to be the unscheduled time, so I can't count karate etc, and any unscheduled time means I sould be reading for my next class, or writing on the semester project.
I love it though, even if I very rarely have not got anything to do. I used to have to prioritise which homework I had time for!

[kilted exile]

Nah I think you can definitely count your karate in as your free time. After all it is certainly not a requirement right? It is just one of the things you choose to do in your free time - same as I could use some of free-time currently to be doing karate instead of watching The Alamo -all just different uses of our free-time

[Niamh]

I have lots of free time... so i fill it up with lots of other things.

[AimusSage]

I have a lot of free time nowadays. It's not all that though, and I find that even though I have lots of free time, I plan a lot of activities in it. Which is good, although the unscheduled time is pretty sweet and awesome too, but that's also because I am sweet and awesome. Or at least I just convinced myself I am. It sometimes doesn't come out all that well.

This is free time for instance it is sunday evening and I try to always have this time off for just random activities. Which works so far. although I now realize I completely forgot to call someone and it is too late now, so it'll have to wait till tomorrow. Aha too much free time and you start forgetting responsibilities.

[Chava]

Nah I think you can definitely count your karate in as your free time. After all it is certainly not a requirement right? It is just one of the things you choose to do in your free time - same as I could use some of free-time currently to be doing karate instead of watching The Alamo -all just different uses of our free-time

Well, I find myself dissagreeing. When I was in school, life was more simply divided between school and freetime. Now I have so many things to administrate between studies, work, social obligations, volunteering, and of course my sports. As much as I love to do those things, I think it's safe to say they are all part of making my life stressfull, because they all have to fit in a schedule. Therefore, freetime has come to mean, for me, the time where I do not HAVE to do something. And yes, I do feel I have to go to karate because otherwise I will be behind for the next lesson etc.
When I do decide to take time for myself, I consider it my free time from my hectic life.
It's really semantics though.

[Nightshade]

Free time what is tis free time, there is almost always books to read, people to annoy/stalk/ collect. list of things I havent done to do.. and if all that fails cooking and cleaning, whihc never seems to be done.


If you dont enjoy your time (both at work & home) then things are pretty screwy - this is especially the case for people in college, I cant fathom how someone could pay to study a subject but not enjoy what they are learning. The same goes for work too, if you dont like the job you do do something about, sure there are always ****ty days when you are just fed up & dont want to be there - but these days are always out-numbered for me by the days that things are going well & I'm walking around smiling like an idiot all day long.

Bisactly! I love my job, I could live at my job... ok maybe I love it a wee bit too much, but it makes me favourite employee for extra ohours whihc means more money whihc means more books so I am happy#!
:D

[Lokasenna]

What is this thing you call 'free time'? I must try it sometime...

[skib]

yep. my life is full of free time. Those are the wonders of staying up all night- you have way more free time than if you sleep.

[librarius_qui]

yep. my life is full of free time. Those are the wonders of staying up all night- you have way more free time than if you sleep.

:lol:



What is this thing you call 'free time'? I must try it sometime...

haha!

Freetime is the time when I

1. spend in the internet, specially LitNet
2. watch a good movie
3. shoot playmobil stories
4. play chess with a friend

5. stroll around in a green area (in Rio, there's Jardim Botânico)
6. go skating
7. go to a bookstore, or to a toystore ... or stroll in a shopping center, and have an ice cream

8. go to cinema
9. go eat in a restaurant

First four of them I can't live without, and they happen mainly on weekends (but playmo I can do during the week, at night, it's good ...);
## 5-7 I shouldn't live without, but .. well.
8 & 9 I never do, nowadays, because of lack of money.

This is free time, for heaven's sake!~

[seanlol]

I have plenty of free time. I need a hobby.

:D

[Tournesol]

What is this thing you call 'free time'? I must try it sometime...


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[kasie]

...... Aha too much free time and you start forgetting responsibilities.

That is so true, Animus! I have been retired for four years now and so my time is all 'free' - if I have to do something important, I find I have to write myself a note to remind myself to do it. :D Otherwise I just sit around all day and read.... I write on little Sticky Notes and put them on the table top where I have breakfast, otherwise by the time I've woken up my brain with a crossword and read just one more chapter of that fascinating book, the morning has gone and I haven't made the phone call/written the letter/found the birthday card/ordered the flowers (just to give examples of what I have forgotten to do in the past month).

[IJustMadeThatUp]

I'm not much different to you kasie, I only work three days a week and I spend pretty much all of my free time at home (I live in a tiny country town, so no shopping, coffee shops etc). I am very good at making lists of things to do, but usually waste the whole day reading/watching TV or movies/interneting only to realise it is now night and I have not done anything!

[Virgil]

I voted that I have free time, and what I have is spent here. So some but not much. :)

[Chloe M]

It depends on how busy I am, but usually it's a moderate amount.
Mostly, I read and write. I'll read for a while and then write about what I read. That helps me process and retain the content. It's also a handy journal prompt source.
Other than that, I kill a fair amount of time on the internet or writing fiction. I also watch an hour of television a week.

[Lily Adams]

I have very little nowadays, unfortunately.

[1n50mn14]

I have a bit, now, but not much anymore.
I have little time to myself, other than when I'm being an insomniac. I should be at the barn all day every day, or walk my dog, visit my boyfriend, clean the house, try to get a job that pays that thing called 'money'...

[grotto]

I have a lot of free time now and have always liked making time for free time. I’m a long way from the school years but not yet to the retirement stage but one thing that I have noticed is; some people keep them selves artificially busy because they can’t tolerate being alone with them selves. It’s better for some to complain about not having free time than to make the effort to prioritize their lives so they can have “free time”.

When I stopped chasing the candle and decided for my self what really mattered in life, I found that I had a lot of free time to do with as I wished. The hard part was facing that time and deciding for myself what it is that is important as opposed to trying to fill it up with what everyone else told me was important.

You will never get support from others in your quest for free time; this has been my experience any ways. I have been amazed at how many people are annoyed with me now because I no longer “have to” do as they think they have to do. I find it interesting how a few people are always asking me, “don’t you have something better to do?”, no I don’t I say, I’m doing exactly as I want to do, so how is it a problem for you?

Solidarity is for those that need to be justified in their personal misery.

[andave_ya]

I have a bit, now, but not much anymore.
I have little time to myself, other than when I'm being an insomniac. I should be at the barn all day every day, or walk my dog, visit my boyfriend, clean the house, try to get a job that pays that thing called 'money'...

I SO resent having to get a job for money. I know that isn't practical, but the two most irritating subjects/things in the world are first money, then power.

Although I suppose, one can't really blame the things themselves but what people do with them. Mostly it entails getting and spending as much of the first as possible and dissecting in inane detail and hoping to somehow attain the second, all the while never realizing that the power to kill, ruin, maim, tax without cause, take away property from, etc. that are only one aspect of power that can't exist very long - there's no mass of inspiration, love, and intellect behind it.

Rant over. Sorry - I get so annoyed over these things.

[a_little_wisp]

I shouldn't have free time... but I force things aside to make room for it.

[Mortis Anarchy]

I have free time--doesn't mean it is supposed to be free! Haha, I generally always have at least an hour or two free. Generally I go to the gym or I'll just read(you would think I would be tired of reading after all of my textbook readings!) I don't have my paints or my art supplies in my dorm so if I'm feeling creative I'm mix music or just doodle on lined paper. I work also...so that is a free time murderer.

[NikolaiI]

Yes, I have some free time. I read, or write, or walk to temple if there's enough time, meditate, chant japa, study chess, walk to the library of the school I am not a student of... :)

[Joreads]

What is free time again?

[librarius_qui]

What is free time again?

To some people, maybe the time between work and home, when you look up at the sky, and say "aaaawww!!!" ...

To others, maybe some time when they run from the big city (I have friends who do so ...)

To me, it has to be a little everyday!
But there's more free time on weekends ...

& I do play chess with m'self, during lunch ... I think I can consider it free time :rolleyes~

[metal134]

My only real obligation is the 8 hours a day I work. Once I get off work at 4:00, the next 8 hours are my free time. I generally spend it watching movies or ballgames, playing some video games or reading. Sometimes with friends, sometimes by myself. I also work out three times a week. If I was someone who was always busy and all my time was tied up in one obligation or another and I never had time for things like sports or movies or reading, then I would hate life. I would probably suffer from full blown depression. I'm not exaggerating, either.

[Scheherazade]

I do have some free time but that is mostly owing to my multitasking arrangements... Like prepare for classes, cook or watch movies while on the Forum, knit while watching television or rRead while in the bathtub.

Yeah, I mostly multitask and try to get more than one thing done.

[JuniperWoolf]

I have a cool job. My duties include: being there. I just have to be there, and then I can do whatever I want while I'm there, so I have plenty of time to do anything I want (note: if you're wondering how to work with absolutely no managers/bosses around forcing you to pretend you're working, I give you these two words: night shift).