How do I write about relaxing when I’ve spent the entire weekend watching back-to-back series and movies? On the cover, doing that is relaxing, so I understand the irony, but I have been jumping from one show to the other because I don’t want to sit still. Out comes my friend who is snapping me out of it and wants me to write about it. She is nice like that.
It’s December already! I’ll repeat, it’s December already!!! In my mind, the year 2023 just started yesterday. Or maybe we’ve been running faster than a bullet train to finish our work we don’t even know how the days passed. Weirdly, I don’t remember a single thing about what I did yesterday or the week before but I remember watching all the trends pass me by on Instagram. I remember the Girl Math, Boy Math, and cat math videos. The recent trend of every influencer doing fall videos as if the leaves were falling like torrential rain. And, now we’ll be noticing the Christmas videos. I have a millennial spirit so I watch my TikTok videos on Instagram.
However, in all the fast-paced and impatient world of reels, I watched a sweet video yesterday about a lady who explained how to keep your fingers warm while working on a computer with a mouse. No angle, just a relatable and sweet lady giving us a solution and it put a smile on my face. The tip is- while wearing the half glove, you put the mouse inside a cap so your exposed fingers will be warm.
After a long conversation with a friend, we both made it clear that if we stay still for a long time, we cannot grow. A period of frustration is bound to occur because as life goes on if we don’t move along that, we get this feeling of getting left behind. It’s a very natural feeling, and it happens to everybody. If we don’t make any efforts to move, this feeling is just going to get intensified. We both have realised how badly we need change in our lives to keep us stimulated and that’s the only way to thrive. Funnily, we’ve learned this while not being able to move forward due to certain constraints such as financial deficit or effects of the job market and such. And, we end the conversation by saying maybe this period was supposed to teach us what we’ve learned, to navigate ourselves better for our future decisions. We’ve understood about a new layer of ourselves, like a cute but vicious onion.
So what do we do to bide our time? I’ve taken myself out on solo coffee dates, and movie dates (the best ones) and gone out with my mother. It certainly helps pass the time while I figure out the game plan; maybe work on developing a new skill, work on more hobbies, and learn how to stay still and not panic. I also understand that as much as our brain loves being alone but at the same time wants some company without wanting to have anybody around, we need to push out this thought and reach out to our amazing friends who may be feeling the same way & by talking it out, we can have a better time. We can have better relationships.
Let me know how you pass your time. Which movie have you watched recently?