If you want to dramatically improve your quality of life, learn to recover your attention quickly after something steals it: social media, stressful thoughts, minor inconveniences. Most of it is noise that steals hours to days of enjoyment. Breathe and let it go.
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Wasting time might be one of the strangest accusations we have ever invented.
Apparently, you can waste 2 pm by sitting under a tree doing nothing. The afternoon was going to pass either way. The Earth was going to rotate either way, but because you didn't convert those hours into money, errands or improvement: we decided the time itself was wasted. As if simply, being alive isn't enough to justify an afternoon.