I think I work too much. I need to be reminded that there's more to life. What are things I can do to help clear my mind and feel like I'm not just living to pay bills?
I am a male in my late 20s, work 2 jobs around 65 hours a week. I feel like my life is just a constant reminder that there's not much that can be done without money. I'm losing my spontaneity, my zest for life. I hardly ever have time to sleep and feel rested, eat, errands or even just have time to myself to do the things that I love. I feel that everything that makes me happy is being pushed on the back burner to make time to work and work some more. I've lost a lot of good friends in the process. I've been through a lot this year. I've dealt with death, losing friends and family, a painful break-up, new jobs, moving to a new part of the city, betrayal and learning to do things I have never done before. I don't have time. I have no social life and making new friends is hard when you're working so much. I'm learning to adjust to the new life that I have been given but I feel like I'm losing myself trying to stay afloat. What are some things to do, to help remind me that life is a beautiful thing? Places to go, things to see, music I should listen to, books I should read? Anything helps.
And by this, I don't mean to say that I am "barely scraping by." I do okay. I make just enough money to cover all things such as rent, electricity, insurance car and cell. I just mean I would like to learn of new things that I could do in order to not feel like life is just work. I'm sure that there are things I could cut out. But I work very hard for what I have. I've always that that it was a good thing to earn everything you have, am I missing something?