There is so much competition for my attention. We got video games, movies, books, gym, IRL events, eating, sleeping, house chores, studying to improve career, etc and it feels like there is no time to do everything. I want to read Malazan Book of The Fallen but I never have time to do so as I have to give up something else, which would be time I just sit there on my chair, let mind go blank and chill. I honestly have no idea how people find time to read long series. Why is there so little time in life? Does anyone else feel overwhelmed?
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Sounds like you need to scrape something’s off of your plate to make room.
You have to make sure that you yourself are okay mentally and physically before you can pour yourself into other things. You can keep going and going and try to accomplish all the things but you will wear yourself out. What gets done gets done.
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The final boss of life always wins, namely, time itself.
Boss music starts playing
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Time discipline is so important. Organise time for everything and stick to it.
I probably still wouldn’t have finished my postgrad if it weren’t for Covid. It gave me the time and space to finish up. Making the best of a bad situation.
It sounds like someone hasn’t found the secret to eternal life yet, and no I will not tell you either…cause than it wouldn’t be a secret.
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Life is a balancing act. It is what it is.
To me it’s like anything else, you make the time for things you like , even if it’s only a couple hours here and there.
For example, are they IRL events like going to a offspring’s sports event or school play or concert. If so make the time for that. If it’s going out with let’s say for giggles Hank and Peggy Hill for dinner and movie on a consistant basis, then tell them you need to take a break . Irl friends would understand (as example if that’s the case).
I don’t feel overwhelmed, but I do wish there was more time. I feel I can only devote enough time to one single passion at a time, be it gaming, movies, or reading.
Right now it is gaming. I have too many series I want to watch (the new GoT, LotR, Jack Ryan, Witcher) but I’ve only been able to keep up with Star Wars series and the Walking Dead (main series; I’m behind on the spinoffs).
I usually switch it up now and then. Before coming back to WoW a few months ago, it was streaming. I started to watch (mostly rewatch) the Marvel movies in release order from Iron Man. I managed to get to Guardians of the Galaxy 2 before my second kid was born. Now that I’m back to WoW, my 1-2 hours of free time at night is usually taken up by WoW. I literally don’t have time for anything else or I’d lose too much sleep.
I just did a study and have found that 100% of people who live eventually die. I am trying to get the CDC to require life to have a warning label.
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Just read the Sylvanas book recently. Great read. I relate to her.
Can’t do it all unfortunately. Unless you are well off and don’t have to work a minute in your life. I get the same feeling quiet often but between a full time job including commute, family, spending time with partner (should do more of this), no kid yet, gave up gym atm because I want that extra 60-90 mins for WoW (probably not a smart choice) but gotta do what you enjoy the most.
There’s so many shows/movies/other games I want to play/watch but I think to myself I’d rather play WoW because that gives me th greatest satisfaction atm.
Eventually the earth will slow down enough to where we will have 25 plus hours or more
As for now pick what’s the most important to you and run with it
Alas the years.
Really, you have to realize that generally you can only focus on one “hobby” at a time – at least intensely. I know people who have “sub” hobbies on a kind of “maintenance mode”, where they participate in them once a week or something and that works fine, because it’s in maintenance mode rather than intense mode. But intense mode (which applies to making progress in games, book series, tv series etc) is time-intensive, and you kind of have to pick one thing at a time and just accept that you have limitations. Everyone has a list of stuff on backlog, don’t worry – you only start to worry when the list looks like it’s starting to get too short, lol.
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Audible books are what I do while multitasking sometimes. Great for driving or even grinding stuff in the game. Listening to dragon roars and the other game stuff becomes loopy to me. Learning or listening to stories is more engaging to me while doing trivial things in the game.
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But the ads showed Le Bron beat father time
Because people made a bunch of BS up that we have to do for a ridiculous amount of hours that it’s tough to fit actual living into the crap schedule
Speaking about time, it is time to fix and eat breakfast, at least I won’t miss anything since it is almost time for weekly maintenance.
That moment in every 26 year old’s life when they have a lot of digital achievements … but wake up thinking “I wish I had stuck to my piano lessons.”
There’s always going to be 24 hours in the day, no matter how you slice it up.
The question will be how you prioritize them.
One trick that can help is to have a set routine for the things you always want to get done, to turn those into as close as automatic things as possible. For example, it’s dinner so you spend twenty minutes talking with family.
Once it’s automatic, that’s less time spent thinking about what to do and more time spent doing what you want.
At the end though, you are right in that we’ve got 24 hours a day and there are more than 24 hours of stuff we’d probably like to do. And that’s a blessing, to have so much stuff we want to do that we will never run out in this world 
Use your day with wisdom and joy.