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Which activities make you lose track of time?

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“What activities make you lose track of time?”

There are activities that negatively make me lose track of time and there are activities that positively make me lose track of time.

The negative one should be no surprise from my previous post, but scrolling online makes me lose track of time in a “time suck” kind of way where it takes the time away from me without benefitting me.

The positive ones are my hobbies like journaling, writing, crocheting, reading, or playing an instrument. I gain something from this time because I’m making something or working on a skill. Reading long-form entertainment gives me something as well because I learn from the book or characters. For example, yesterday I read chapter 27 of Middlemarch by George Eliot and there was a line in that book that I enjoyed so much that I read it over a few times and highlighted it. (Page 271; “Circumstances were almost sure to be on the side of Rosamond’s idea, which had a shaping activity and looked through watchful blue eyes, whereas Lydgate’s lay blind and unconcerned as a jelly-fish which gets melted without knowing it.”)