{"id":286,"date":"2007-02-17T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhagwad.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/the-importance-of-free-time.html"},"modified":"2007-02-17T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T06:34:00","slug":"the-importance-of-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2007\/philosophy\/the-importance-of-free-time.html\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of free time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday was Saturday, and I was asked to come to work on Sunday, which is today, for 3 hours, though experience shows that it&#8217;s usually longer than what they say. I refused to come. They say it&#8217;s important. That&#8217;s an insult. It implies that my free time, and my home life is not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know the importance of the meeting. I know that people have flown down from other cities, and even though it wasn&#8217;t planned up to the last minute, the meeting will decide some critical issues. The point is, I find my home life, and what I do on Sunday, even more important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I won&#8217;t say that I have some commitment, or that I write some book, or some other fruity occupation like that. I just waste my time. And it&#8217;s very important for me to waste my time. More important than anything else. Wasting time is all for me. I wish I could waste decades of my time, but I&#8217;m forced to work. It turns out, that when I waste time for long periods, I paradoxically become rather productive. My last two years which were wasted, were the most productive of my life. I learned the guitar, played chess, wrote poetry and other articles, picked up a bit of Japanese, and learned a good deal of psychology, among other things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But that&#8217;s hardly the point. Even if I didn&#8217;t do anything productive, I still have a right to make wasting time a priority. I choose to do so. I wish to accomplish nothing, and die unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Saturday, and I was asked to come to work on Sunday, which is today, for 3 hours, though experience shows that it&#8217;s usually longer than what they say. I refused to come. They say it&#8217;s important. That&#8217;s an insult. It implies that my free time, and my home life is not. 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