Nico Kriegel

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@heavysnake529645 · Jan 11, 2026

Enola Martinez

@redelephant976270 · Jan 11, 2026 10:52 am

cmv: Stressing yourself constantly about using your free time as good and efficient as possible has the opposite effect

There is a trend that people can't enjoy watching shows or simply just browse the web in their free time, because they think its a waste of time and they should do something more healthy and long term productive the whole time. Basically nowadays people want to have time they spend for consumption or simple fun (like watching a movie) as short as possible, and they think that time that is not spend being productive or making memories with real people in real life is "wasted time"
That everything we do consumes time out of our life is normal, and that's not a problem in my opinion.
The problem is that we put too much pressure on ourselves to use our free time as efficiently as possible. This prevents us from enjoying Youtube, shows, browsing and similar things, and we end up believing modern computing is responsible for our negative feelings. It isn't. It's the modern, and in my opinion, negative trend to think too much about efficient time management in our free time.
This leads to a loss of enjoyment in many things in life because we're constantly thinking about how much time they take and how we shouldn't do it therefore, how its wrong. We stress ourselves out trying to follow th

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