Tl;Dr:

The primordial void has always needed filling. Fill yours wisely.

Body:

From the dawn of man to us right now there has been one constant war, survival. Once those needs have been met; then what?

We won't argue about how much free time the hunter and gatherers had versus agricultural societies versus post industrial revolutionists. The facts stand, all these societies, including ours do not require 24/7 investment from it's citizens to survive. We're not talking thriving, simply what it takes to survive.

Realistically you can survive on a forty hour a week, minimum wage job anywhere in the United States of America. Ideal living situation, no. With that you should be able afford a room, hopefully without an actual roommate, in a house with strangers and food. You should be sleeping eight hours a night, that's fifty-six hours a week, leaving your week with seventytwo hours. I dare you to fill them productively. I'll even help you cut some hours off.

Five hours a week, that's thirty minutes of drive time each way. Take another hour a day for food. Heck take thirty minutes to unwind at night and get ready in the morning. That's a sloppy nineteen leaving you with fiftythree hours each week to use or kill.

Killing it is exactly how most people spend it. Look at how much of society is geared around spending money in exchange for a good time. A lot of that good time that's being pedaled for you, isn't necessarily the best for you. I'm not going to tell anyone to stop going to the bars, binge watching series, reading frivolous books, playing video games, doing puzzles or simply sitting around smoking weed listening to music. Just don't come at me with an excuse about time if you don't have every single second of your week planned out; with all the garbage time wasters cut.

Most of you would be surprised at how much free time you actually have to fill day to day. My advice, move from spending your time as a consumer, to a producer, improving your most important product: you.

In conclusion:

7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, 60 seconds a minute or 604,800 seconds a week. By no means are you suppose to have ever second of your life planned out but by mapping out what has to get done, you can take control what's left, spending it on what you want or squandering your time like it's going out of style.