Day 39 - Waste of Time

Is it just wastes of time which are wastes of time or is wasting time what life is all about? Two current wastes of time wasting my time at the moment are thinking of pretend band names and finding people on Facebook who have similar but not identical names to celebrities. Elton Johnson, Ronald Gump, Bonnie O'Sullivan etc.

Most would probably unanimously agree that spending my time doing these things is most certainly a waste of time. But then most of those people would also probably sit for hours watching films, or go out drinking. Are those things wastes of time? Neither are productive. Yes they both offer enjoyment value, but so do my wastes of time. Even reading, with its intellectual connotations, doesn't actually do anything. So really the question is, does it matter if you spend your life simply wasting your time?

Given that in the grand scheme of things, everything will one day cease to exist, so even productive things like knitting a jumper or building a shed are also ultimately wastes of time. I think the best approach isn't to worry about what is and isn't a waste of time, but what do you enjoy doing. But it's hard to enjoy what you're doing when you spend half the time doing it wondering if you should be doing something else. Humans have an inbuilt fault which makes us think there must be something important to do, that there must be meaning. Even coming to this conclusion that there isn't any meaning or point, I still can't help but think there is something I should be doing.

I'm doing this. Does this count? It was the answer to a question I had a month or so ago, but I'm beginning to wonder if this is just as meaningless as any other thing. But given that every other thing is also meaningless, I'll carry on.