Infinite Free Time: Not an Illusion

Nothing much is happening around me nowadays. My graduation is over and currently I am waiting for my employer to call me to join. In the meantime, I am spending all my time at home, with my family. This feeling is somewhat new to me. This feeling of having as much time at my disposal as I could wish for. Usually, I am habituated to not knowing how the day went by, with little or no time to actually sit down and observe what is happening around me, and sometimes inside me. I chose today to write this post because I have already spent more than a fortnight at home, well settled into the comforts and luxuries that usually follow staying at home, and there does not seem to be any change lurking around the corners.

The first question that comes to one’s mind when one is actually in such a situation is how to spend this much time. Contrary to popular beleif, having as much time as you could ask for is actually something as tiring as having no time at all. I spend most of the time trying to think up ways to spend the remaining time. Let me tell you, watching movies, television shows, reading novels etc are all embodiments of a slow and sluggish flow of time. Not that I dislike any of them, I actually survive on reading novels most of the time. But pursuing any one of those for the entire day, day after day, is somewhat mind numbing.

The question of utilising this free time and learning something new like driving, swimming etc does not come up, because then again that would require this feeling of procrastination and laziness to pass away first, which does not seem possible in this unrestricted atmosphere, where one is free to sleep as long as he/she wants, where the weather itself seems to be a lullaby lulling you to be comfortable, to take things easy, and where the world seems to be conspiring to take the power of taking a decision away from you.

What I have done, is to observe this daily routine, and come up with a few indispensible things, that would not be otherwise in my free time, no matter what the universe or timeline. They are:

1. Having cereals while watching cartoons in the morning.
2. Sitting on the roof with tea and a conversation
3. Home made food (Yes, that was a rarity for me during my graduation period)
4. The infinite open space that exists outside every small town
5. The instant transformation of something mundane to something memorable, when done with friends.
6. Listening to good music, thinking about downloading some, and never actually doing it.
7. Last one for now, but never ever the least, writing about anything and everything.

I’d rather observe these small things and feel their essence, along with the grandeur of life around me, than otherwise.
So tell me, suggest me, share with me, how would/are you spending all the free time you have?

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