With each passing day, I get caught up in one hectic activity or another but whenever I have leisure time, I do not hesitate to make the most of it. This applies to many others out there but the things you do during leisure time determines if your leisure time is well spent or not. I'm one who loves staying indoors and as such most–if not all –of my leisure activities occur indoors.
By default, the first thing I do during leisure hours is take a well deserved nap. I get weird stares whenever I tell some set of people that I infact love to sleep. The essence of leisure time is to relax and recuperate, yes? What better way to do this than napping. Taking regular naps has a way of making me feel a lot more energised and ready to face challenges that may come up.
Another way I spend my leisure hours is watching movies. It is amusing how I graduated from watching movies out of boredom to watching movies for leisure. There was a point in my life where I would watch an hour long movie for four days. I kid you not! This was because I always ended up sleeping a few minutes into the movie; especially if the movies were action movies. But recently, I find watching movies and animations really interesting and as such, some of my leisure hours are spent watching movies.
There is no way I would spend my leisure hours without coming up with a new crochet craft. After so much persuasion from a friend, I discovered my liking for crocheting. I tell whoever cares to listen that crocheting is really therapeutic. It is worthy to note that there is a big difference between crocheting under pressure and crocheting for leisure.
The few crochet projects I have made have been mostly for myself and so, I do not have a deadline. I just crochet at my own pace.
The perfect combination to me is listening to music while crocheting. Uh la la. I am an ardent music lover and I play music while doing virtually everything. But listening to music during leisure hours is one thing I love doing and it comes with a different kind of bliss. There is this inexplicable feeling of comfort and peace that comes with tunes especially from the 60's.
I am not so much of a social media person and I can say that the only social medium I'm very active on is Hive but once in a while, I spend my leisure time catching up with friends on other social media. If there was a way I could transport all my friends from other social media to hive, then I would have done so because this would make catching up with them way easier.
The last, but not the least, of the things I like doing for leisure is finding out new things. A broad name for this would be exploring. My exploration comes in different forms. It could be trying out a new craft, getting to know the intricacies of a new app, having a taste of a new and interesting dish, painting or photography from a different perspective. These activities are things I enjoy doing and in the end they make my leisure hours worthwhile.
The list of the things I do during my leisure hours goes on and on but I have listed a few frequent and somewhat important ones. I believe that leisures hours shouldn't cause any form of discomfort and the few activities I have mentioned fit perfectly into this category.
With that, I would love to end with this quote by Ovid:
In our leisure, we reveal what kind of people we are. ~Ovid
With love, wongi ✨