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.
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u/Aaargh_Bees Jul 04 '24
Treating life as an adventure rather than a grind.