On and on

Past these examples, keep your eyes and ears open, you never know when you come across something to pick your interest. You could go for the sport version of reading with speed reading, useful when you go through plenty of literature that is less about transmitting a story and more about giving clear and concise facts. If you have an Eco-friendly drive or a green thumb, gardening may be for you. If there is no garden, taking care of house plants could do the trick. If you like to keep clothes for long, learning sewing to plug the holes is chill and can be done sitting on a sofa, comfortable under a blanket. Or perhaps video editing?

If you’d like to do more for the community, volunteering might be the way and has you in contact with other people. I spend some months at a local food bank, but I know of animal shelters looking for help, and associations that help handicapped people participate in sports and events.

Lifestyle can be worked on. Ever wanted to be a minimalist who owns only the essentials and gets far away from the hassle of city-life? Could be a goal too. Take a step back, go to a place cheaper where you can calmly watch life. Get a few dogs and enjoy quiet solitude.

To sum up the above pages: Find your thing. Or in the words of Ernest Hemingway: “find what you love and let it kill you”. Booze did him in, and while it does conserve corpses well, I doubt he had a lesson on alcohol’s preserving virtues on cadavers in mind. Let’s stick to something healthier. Find the thing, or things, to obsess over instead of over what you’re missing. A goal, a new objective that doesn’t involve a relationship or love. If you can’t find an obsession, at least find things you’re interested in and can spend days on. Sometimes it takes time before an interest really blooms and takes hold. Find yours.