Living the Leisure Life: How I Spark Joy in My Spare Moments

As the saying goes, ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’.😅 I guess I’m a dull Nhaji because my current life is all about work day in,day out.

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Looking at my current life, I think the situation you find yourself in determines the amount of free time you have. As a final year student I can say I barely have time for any other thing aside my sleeping time which is very essential to me. Everyday, I am piled up with work which gives me little or no time to engage in any fun activities.

On the other hand, during school holidays I am left with a lot of free time I start to get bored from doing nothing each day and I always wish to go back to my busy school life. Now that I’m back to my busy school life I wish for it to end as soon as possible. What at all do humans want? I guess I want a perfect balance of everything so I can have fun while being busy with life.

Currently, the only free time I have is in the morning and maybe on Sundays which is not much for me to be honest. But I try to make good use of it. One thing I like to do is listen to music. Sometimes I get so frustrated with all the work I have to do so to calm my nerves I play some music while I work and that helps. Most of the time I know I’m disturbing others in the hostel but a concentrated mind is never disturbed. 😂

_{my music playlist}
I’m not really a social media person because I like to read. Books contain a lot of knowledge but today ,people barely read aside reading lecture slides.😅 Since reading is my hobby, the little time I have is invested in reading new books since I always have a lot of new books. It’s good to invest in books and so I would advise everyone to do so.

Over the months, I’ve been trying to improve on my photography skills so I also invest some of my leisure time in taking photos of random stuff and editing them to suit my preference. Not all of them come out well but most of them look okay. I can say that I’ve done better in the last few months and I’m really happy about that.

Whew! How could I forget sleep? I like to sleep and on my lazy days I wouldn’t mind being in bed the whole day. The only time I would come out is to get food. Sleep is good but too much of it is bad I guess.

I’m not really a movie lover but the people I hang around have finally succeeded in influencing me to watch movies. I’ve watched a whole lot of movies but most of the time I watch them cos I’m bored. Even though I’m not a fan of movies, I do watch movies with my friends and family just to spend time with them. I really enjoy action movies so I sometimes make time to watch a few when I have nothing to do.

There’s a lot more on the list and I wouldn’t want to bore you with them so I guess I’m going to have to end here. I hope you enjoyed reading this, thank you for your time.

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