is it just me or does everyone steal your only freetime: weekends

i went through my calendar and in 3 months i have 1 free weekend. i really hate it. i think i'm going through what happens when you don't let your mind take enough time to relax. i need at least 10% of my non-sleep time to drain the stress from work and other people and not getting it creates just so many digressive problems.

this month alone i've had a wedding, a move, a 50th anniversary, and a business trip.

i know it's good to be busy, but i think you really need to find the delicate balance between having a ton of shit to do and giving yourself sometime to just sit on your ass and do nothing. i really need more of the latter and i think most people in my circle do too. why aren't we giving it to ourselves?

i think it mostly comes from just not having a more consistent schedule. i have moved 4 times in the past 14 months, and am always going between the city, arlington heights and lombard. all this running around takes between 1 and 3 hours a day. that's the free time lost everyday right there.

next time you see a friend who's relatively relaxed all the time, ask them how much time they give to themselves everyday. i bet it's > 3 hours....