Wasting your life

Daily Meditation 1,059–1/28/2025

A shorter DM today.

It’s OKAY to waste time sometimes.

Does that mean you sit on your ass all week? You get cheated on, so you lay in bed for a month? You lost your job, so you mope for months?

No. It doesn’t.

When you have an exceptional day — “exceptional” as in it’s an extreme exception to your normal day — where you’re very low energy, you got cheated on, you lost your job and such, sure. You can waste some time!

Here’s the rub:

1. Define the length of time where such behavior (or lack of behavior, more like) will be acceptable. And be reasonable. Losing your job is not equal to a full month lazing around.
2. Define the “depth” of behaviors. E.g. going on a full alcohol bender or shooting heroine are not acceptable. Sleeping in until noon may be.

If you’re gonna be “lazy” or waste time sometimes, that’s fine. It’s life!

But you should at least be reasonable about it, and that’s where self-boundaries can help.