[jh3]

I go to bars with friends, I go to concerts, I read, I sometimes just go to places like Barnes & Noble, buy a coffee, and either read a magazine or just sit around and watch people. Lately I've just been going out with a few close friends, usually to a bar or two or three, to drink and laugh and talk and have a good time. It never gets old if you're with the right people. Yeah, it's not hiking or biking or walking, unless you count walking to the next bar, but it's always great being able to unwind. Definitely not the healthiest weekend activity, though. If you can handle being alone and have some money to burn you should travel. I'm going to Europe for a couple of weeks just for fun. Being single has its perks.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book on compilers or thinking about your startup's marketing campaign, but I think it starts to become wrong when that's all you do. Being single isn't necessarily a bad thing either. I mean, it isn't the greatest thing all the time, but that all depends on how you're looking at it.

Anyway, if you think it's fun to just sit around and read then by all means do that. Don't think you have to do something else. By the looks of it though, you don't think it's fun. It seems like you're forcing yourself to think it's fun because everything else seems scary or too difficult to do. Don't just work all day everyday. You'll just burnout and be worse off then you are now.