Time for the "different"

Most of our time in the modern adult's moreover family life during the working time is split into parts: sleep, work, family and kids, friends. During vacations it's all about traveling, enjoying, resting, making the difference from one described above. So I asked myself is there any time for your-self to stop, to think through the things you are doing everyday to make something better, to change the way your own life goes or to ameliorate someone's life? Is there a time for the new ideas and information, for self-education, time for the "different" between the time for kids, friends, work, sleep, traveling and entertainment? Or the privilege of this kind of time is only for students, unemployed, rich, without kids, single or even a recluse?

How can someone who is waking up at 7:00 to take his kids to school, goes to work, works, has a lunch, works again, has an after-work drink, goes to home, plays with kids, goes to sleep can have a time to think of something bigger?

Yes there is a way to say that you should have a work, for example, which enables you to think of ideas 8 hours per working day, and I agree it could be an option. But I can hardly imaging one to think of how to foster his kids and make their games more educative and creative while he is staying in the professional environment talking to colleagues or focused on his current backlog of tasks. One can argue that it is what the job should be about, but in the real-life it is rather an utopia, because you may love to do and think of different even unrelated things. There might be even an entrepreneur working hard on his ideas, but is there a time for him also to think of something different that what he is doing?

Is there a smarter way to manage your time to have it or should you sacrifice a part of some other time? How much time is need for it? And is it possible to do it?..

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