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Living life to the max, being spontaneous, etc.
I am someone who loves and lives by routine. If I do something I have to plan it and my life isn't particularly exciting. I came away from a movie recently thinking how I want to change this and howni need to embrace life and live in the moment before I see what is so often the case when people get to a certain age and realise they didn't do that.
I don't want to live completely carelessly but what are things I can do to be spontaneous, live life to the max, embrace life etc. I mean, I have a full time job and rent and bills to pay so things like travelling around the world type of thing, though exciting, isn't really an option.
Any help, tips etc appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
P.s. I'm aware of the irony of planning spontaneity!
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I have the perfect answer for you: Say yes more often.
When people ask you if you want to go to a concert, say yes. Regardless of money or etc.
Someone asking if you want to take a road trip? Say yes.
Less thinking. More doing. Say yes more often. Pretty soon you will realize that more you experience more exciting events in life.
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You have a sense of humor. It didnt occur to me until your PS comment.
Okay lets go with the list idea and say Friday nights are when you do laundry so you can have your Saturday to spend on yourself, even if its planned out ahead. Here's how you can become less rigid living by a schedule and spontaneous. If a friend asks you to go with them to a movie Friday night but thats laundry night, you would have to shift laundry to another day to go out Friday. Schedules are good but if you can't ever switch a few things, then yes, life is too predictable, you always know what comes next and then is no change or anything to challenge or engage your mind and imagination. Its the same to me as having a budget cus money is tight and having to stick rigidly to a plan on how much to spend on each area. What do you do when an unexpected bill or event shows up. Lets say something happens and you need to get a new tire for your car. There is no savings so the money to take care of this unexpected thing has to come from the strict budget. So you plan to use some of your budgeted grocery money and clothing money to pay for it so you have to spend less in those other areas. Learning to shift things around without worrying about it could help you.
I also like to try shaking up things when with a certain person or friends who really know me well and say something I wouldn't normally say cus its not part of my personality or suggest doing something I would not normally do. Half the time, I am not seriously considering the thing I suggest but it is a whole lot of fun to watch the expressions on faces and hear the laughter. Sometimes, its a simple thing like that which can make life more fun. Hmm, living in the moment, I suppose it could vary according to who you ask. I always go for whats simple, if a song started playing at a store or whereever i might be that I really like, I might say oh I like this song, and not look to see if anyone else is watching but just start singing along or at least humming it. If its grocery shopping and its on the schedule and you're at the market when that song comes on, you're still sticking to your schedule but the spontaneous part is doing something different in this shopping trip that you haven't done in others like singing to a song, starting up a conversation with the lady who is also picking out fruit or whatever, or maybe just complimenting the clerk on her jewelry if you usually never do that. Its the different things, like spices added to a meal, that make the meal, or life more exciting. Good luck. And if you want to run some ideas by me to see what I think, let me know.
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