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by mosalarynolife 2488 days ago
Television and video games are high up on my list of time-wasters. Mediocre girlfriends, PHP, music career, freelancing for crappy clients, electronics repair - the list goes on and on.

Remember that you are not a robot, not everything in your life needs to 100% optimized. It's all a learning experience no matter how much time you fritter away.

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I don't consider watching television a time waster. I'm either working out while I'm watching TV or spending some down time with my wife. Yeah we have "date nights" at least twice a month, but we often don't want to go out or even talk about what we jokingly call our "feelings and emotions", sometimes we just want to be.
Sure, if I've enjoyed my time and learned something useful I won't write it off as "wasted". Who knows what the future holds.

I just recalled a Steve Jobs quote while writing this comment: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."