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Do you ever feel like there isn't enough time in a day?

Asked by mowens (8403points) January 6th, 2010

Lately, I have felt like there is not enough time in the day for all I need to do. At work, I am fine. I get everything done. However, for my personal life, I simply do not have enough time to do what I want to do.

I work monday – friday. 8–5.

I work out 6:30 to 7:30.

Mondays, I actually have nothing planned after the workout, and it is nice, but someone always calls and wants to do something. Is it so terrible that I just want to sit at home and do nothing?

Tuesdays, after my workout, my neighbors and I go out to eat.

Get back around 9, then I usually watch a movie. I need to watch a movie before I go to bed, I always have. I usually get to bed around 11 or 12 on mondays, making me delighfully tired and late the next morning.

Wednesdays: Poker. Poker starts at 7:30, I usually go out of my way to have a crappy workout just so I can make it to poker. If I skip poker, or am late, everyone gives me shit.

Thursdays: Thursdays is happy hour day. All of my friends from all of my old jobs seem to pick this as a good day to go hang out at a happy hour. Which in all honesty is fine… but I get shit for not showing up! I just don’t like leaving the house during the week… is that so wrong?

On the weekends it seems that someone (lately it has been my parents) find an excuse for me to go out of town for some reason. So, I pack up my car Thursday night, and when friday morning hits, I go to work, go to the gym, then go home without even seeing my apartment. I never have time to clean the place, because I am never there. I love being with people, but at the same time I just feel like I am being stretched thin.

I hate it. Does this make me anti-social?

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16 Answers

JustAnother's avatar

There are times, like right now, I wish there were fewer hours in a day so it would be night and I could go to sleep. Have nothing to do now, and that’s exactly what I’m doing. Will read at either 4:00 PM or 5:00 PM.

eeveegurl's avatar

You say a lot of people “give you shit” for not attending certain events. Stop succumbing to their expectations! If you need time for yourself, you should have it. You’re not living for your friends, you are more important. They should be able to understand this if they’re your friends.

Good luck.

tinyfaery's avatar

Maybe you try to do too much. Relax a bit. You can’t go at this pace forever.

Mostly I feel like the days are way too long. Ugh.

El_Cadejo's avatar

Constantly….thing is a usually waste a lot of my time that i can be using productively on fluther…..

Blackberry's avatar

Only when I’m busy like you, I think that’s just how it goes sometimes. My girlfriend is the same way and we always talk on the phone late becase her scedule is similar to yours.

Snarp's avatar

You have more free time than I do. Here’s my day:

6:30 Wake up, shower, shave, dress, etc.
7:00 Eat breakfast while making lunch.
7:30 Brush teath
7:40 Walk dog
7:50 Get son dressed and fed.
8:15 Leave for work.
6:00 Get home from work, walk dog.
6:15 Start dinner
7:00 Eat dinner
8:00 Do dishes, clean up kitchen, scoop litter boxes, take out trash.
8:30 Brush teeth
8:45 Get son ready for bed
9:15 put son to bed
9:30–10:00 Go to bed.

So yes, I always feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day.

mowens's avatar

id be much better off if I could get to sleep without a movie I think. :)

El_Cadejo's avatar

egh me too i need to watch something at night to fall asleep and it usually keeps me up another hour or so just layin in bed

ucme's avatar

@Snarp No time for fluther then? Must squeeze it in there somewhere.

ucme's avatar

24 hours is such a long, long, long time. Enough for this contented camper.

Snarp's avatar

@ucme While I’m bored with my appointed task or waiting for my computer to do something else at work.

SABOTEUR's avatar

Oh, there’s enough time.
You just don’t know when to say, no.

dutchbrossis's avatar

Yes all the time I feel that way.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I’m a parent that works full time – ‘nuff said.

ItalianPrincess1217's avatar

I used to feel like I had no time at all to get anything done, let alone relax or have any down time. I worked a full time job. I had to be there by 8 am and didn’t leave until 5 pm. Work was an hour from my house. So basically I wouldn’t get home until 6 if I didn’t get stuck in traffic. I’d make a quick dinner, run my errands, and be in bed by 10. I never even got a full weekend break. I had to work saturday mornings. It was very depressing. Especially in the winter. It’d be completely dark by the time I left work at 5.

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