finding satisfaction

[kanzeon_2040]

Although humans have material needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter, we've long known that humans also have immaterial needs, such as friendship, romance, entertainment, community standing, and spirituality.  This is definitely an incomplete list

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[matrixmann]

"How to optimize my free time?"

Uh-oh - big, big sign of the mental trap that capitalist life sends one into...
Thoughts of optimization all over the day. Always one could make more out of the time, always one could be missing something. Always... run, run, run!

I don't know why you say here that you're at some peace her with the standard of the lifestyle that makes people so dissatisfied with their lives, despite all the things they enmassed.
'Cause this is a lead thought that it's made of.
People biased in that way exactly live like that. They can never relax, enjoy what they have (if they received what they wanted and aimed for), and they're always like live wire. - "One goal achieved, where is the next one?".

[kanzeon_2040]

Hmmm, perhaps "optimize" was not the best word. I want to shift out of the pattern I fell into during the pandemic and return to having a social life. I want to spend less time reading random crap on the Internet and read some books and play some games. I also want to see if I have any energy for political activism or volunteering. That's the extent of it.

[matrixmann]

That's not the point.
Seeking input all the time, giving in to impulses all the time, seeking "action" all the time, never standing still, being unable to let a second or minute pass by without anything filling it - that's the core I mean here.