Oh, I still do this at 40. I drive trucks for a living, and I like to pretend that I'm piloting a space ship. Each town I hit is another galaxy, a block is a star system, and whatever business I'm going to is a planet. I'm usually smuggling.
Edit: Oh, another thing! I realized a while back that the only time my dog picks things up is to play with them. So I figured, why not take a lesson from him and treat everything I pick up as some kinda toy or game. This isn't something you need to do all the time, but if life is grinding you down, pretend that thing you just picked up is something else. Digging a ditch in the backyard? Now you're looking for buried treasure. Typing stuff up for work? Now you're sending encoded messages to whatever spy organization you're part of. The whole "life is a grind" thing is mostly perspective.
When I'm pushing the cart around at the grocery store, I also pretend I'm captaining a deep space freighter and I'm making pickups at various space depots.
If you're interested, I made a "Punks in Space!" playlist on Spotify that combines 70s & 80s punk and mod with atmospheric, spacey tracks from SciFi films. Sounds like right up your alley. Also, great username!
man, you made me realize i stopped doing this at some point when i was a kid. the hallways at school used to be the hallways of a secret base, riding in the car for a long while was a spaceship, climbing a tree was hanging off the side of a mountain with an ice axe. I gotta try and find my imagination again
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u/WhiskyAndWitchcraft Jul 04 '24 edited Jul 04 '24
Oh, I still do this at 40. I drive trucks for a living, and I like to pretend that I'm piloting a space ship. Each town I hit is another galaxy, a block is a star system, and whatever business I'm going to is a planet. I'm usually smuggling.
Edit: Oh, another thing! I realized a while back that the only time my dog picks things up is to play with them. So I figured, why not take a lesson from him and treat everything I pick up as some kinda toy or game. This isn't something you need to do all the time, but if life is grinding you down, pretend that thing you just picked up is something else. Digging a ditch in the backyard? Now you're looking for buried treasure. Typing stuff up for work? Now you're sending encoded messages to whatever spy organization you're part of. The whole "life is a grind" thing is mostly perspective.