The truth, then is that spending at least some of your leis… - Oliver Burkeman

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The truth, then is that spending at least some of your leisure time "wastefully", focused solely on the pleasure of the experience, is the only way not to waste it - to be truly at leisure rather than covertly engaged in future-focused self-improvement.

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Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the British newspaper The Guardian) and writer.

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One can waste years this way, systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most.

Being alive is just happenstance, and not one more day of it is guaranteed.

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