Posted this on biz, I think it's worth posting here

>>10019446
>Oh yeah, and all the stuff you're supposed to do: exercising 6 or 7 times a week (which I like), reading 30 to 60 pages of books a day to avoid being a philistine, cooking and eating healthily, socialising or internet to avoid insanity, learning new skills like programming, doing something practical, a solid 8 hours of sleep a nighg... there is NO WAY to do all this as a 9-5 wagecuck

I agree. Been working 9-5 for a few months and ever since my reading has taken at hit. So has my exercise regiment and I had to completely quit another hobby. Basically you have to pick one of those things and forget the rest. Here is an average day:

>8:30 wake up run to work
>9am-5pm work. Sometimes I work later
>I bring my gear to work so I can take my dog for a run right away
>get home, shower... its 7pm at the earliest.
>eat some crap. if im lucky my gf cooked something but she works the same hours as me.

so it's 8PM and I have about 4 hours left to do whatever I want. Usually involves errands/chores. Usually I'm too tired to read so I play some video games. I've tried the google calendar thing JBP mentions but literally 2/3rd of my day is spent sleeping and working if not more and it's depressing as fuck to see it on the calendar.

this is what scares me the most.

>>10019446
have you heard of the slow movement? it says pretty much the thing you're describing, plus meditation

keep going yes

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>working 40 hours a week
>get pills because muh depression
>prescription dosage is just slightly above what I actually need
>feel focused and energized all day, everyday
>come home from work, continue writing my novel, still feeling good
>play some vidya, start getting tired
>read a book until I fall asleep
>all this with no desire for a gf thanks to the magic of serotonin
Who living the /goodlife/ here?

I used to commute 4 hours a day to work from 10am to 8pm. I've never been that productive. I knew I had 10 hours to eat, sleep, write and socialize, so I wasted no time.

On an average day I'd wake up at 6, write for an hour if I could, got dressed up, and left home at 8am. I'd read on the bus for 2 hours. Work from 10-8, then went to a café with friends or alone. Arrived home at 11-12pm, had a quick meal if I was still hungry, then I went to sleep.

Now I live 5 minutes away from my job and I work reduced hours since 1th of September (tourism), so I have 17 hours of free time. I procrastinate a lot because I know I have time to do stuff later. Nowadays I wake up, sit around in a café, occasionally with a book, go to work, and write a few shitty sentences at night. More free time also means having more time to spiral deeper into depression, so I guess I'm fucked for now.

>>10020731
Your happiness is an illusion. You are a still a sad shell being puppeted around by a drug. Wake yourself up and find true happiness.

>>10020963
If he's on antidepressants, he knows. It's hard to forget your misery when you take drugs to keep them at bay on a daily basis.

>>10019446
but isn't happiness a spook? A figment of our psychocapitalistic minds

>>10020971
>babbies who just into'd egoism and are chomping at the bit to call everything spooks

>>10020963
>my experiences are more valid than yours because reasons