that is still 1h spend doing things to distract you from an environment you don’t want to be in
Not really. Are you not interested in things?
My commute isn’t very long, but I still queue up recommended songs. I enjoy discovering new music, that’s the sort of thing anon is saying we didn’t have time for. I listened to the original H2G2 radio series mowing the yard this summer. Everyone has to spend time doing boring things, but when those things become routine you can multitask.
I define “free time” as “time where I am able to do whatever comes to my mind, within reason”. I cannot scratch my ass in a commuter train, I cannot decide to be alone, I cannot decide to meet a friend while commuting, I cannot play sports in a car, I cannot decide to take a nap on the highway, and so on and so forth.
Therefore, commuting time is not free time. It is time where I am not 100% occupied with some task, true, but tbh I could describe a lot of work days in the same way.
I didn’t say it was? I don’t recall using the term “free time” at all. I said it could be used productively. Just because the use of certain stretches of time are limited doesn’t mean there aren’t fulfilling uses.
Not really. Are you not interested in things?
My commute isn’t very long, but I still queue up recommended songs. I enjoy discovering new music, that’s the sort of thing anon is saying we didn’t have time for. I listened to the original H2G2 radio series mowing the yard this summer. Everyone has to spend time doing boring things, but when those things become routine you can multitask.
I define “free time” as “time where I am able to do whatever comes to my mind, within reason”. I cannot scratch my ass in a commuter train, I cannot decide to be alone, I cannot decide to meet a friend while commuting, I cannot play sports in a car, I cannot decide to take a nap on the highway, and so on and so forth.
Therefore, commuting time is not free time. It is time where I am not 100% occupied with some task, true, but tbh I could describe a lot of work days in the same way.
I didn’t say it was? I don’t recall using the term “free time” at all. I said it could be used productively. Just because the use of certain stretches of time are limited doesn’t mean there aren’t fulfilling uses.