The Importance of Wasting Time | Stephan Joppich
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When I was a teenager, I spent my entire free time playing video games. Mostly League of Legends but also Call of Duty, Age of Empires, or Minecraft. This wasn’t a casual hobby. It was an obsession. I would come home from school, toss my backpack into the corner, boot up my computer, and play — often late into the night. School […]
  • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The author doesn’t mention it, but their final argument, to me, is stoicism. It’s hard to get into for some, and for me, sometimes hard to stick with, but it is such an incredibly helpful thing to understand. It’s also frequently misunderstood. Just like “wasting time.”

    • sga@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I did not know what the word stoic or stoicism meant, and just read, and apparantly (I have still not completed the wiki article yet, but I am guessing I got the gist of it) that is what I have been living by. Thank You!