#ramblingmind

One of the things I have noticed with this retirement experiment is that I have a tendency not to know what to do with my day. During the beginning, I would get up at a certain time, eat my breakfast, piddle around on social media, then go do something. This something could be the gym, yard work, house work, or even play video games.

Now that I am 6 months into this, my laziness and lack of a desire to do much of anything has caught up to me. My wake up time has become later, which is matched by my sleep time. I mindless flip through social media and news sites for more hours than I want to admit. When I tell myself I am going to go do something the night before, I change my mind the next morning.

I know why this happens and what I am doing to cause this to happen, outside of a general laziness that I happen to have. The question I keep asking myself is how do I change this? More importantly, I ask myself why do I want to change this? That is the real question that needs to be asked. My answers, of course, vary from day to day and situation to situation. Most revolve around the idea that I don't or don't have an end goal. This idea of an end goal has been a weird thing for me for most of my life. If I don't have an end goal, why do it?

To answer all of this, it is my lack of wanting to make a real decision about my life. I kinda like what I am able to do, even if it is a short lived experience. The lack of responsibility, the freedom to say "Fuck it. Let's go". The ability to just do nothing for the sake of doing nothing. This is something I do enjoy (I have been told I was born in the wrong era).

Alas, this does not help me answer the question of "What next?". My desires must be curtailed and shelved so that I can live in a world that requires certain resources and objects. I must pick the thing to do to obtain these things so that I can continue to live at a level I have grown a custom. Not saying I could live at a different level, if needed. I just need to at this moment.