What do you like to do for positive alone time?

[Dynamic]

Right now im making homemade laundry detergent and shampoo. We need it and its a lot of fun for me. No music. Dead quiet besides the dogs.

 

[arfie]

would you like some bee hive, chicken coop and wild herb derivatives for your detergent and shampoo? i love collecting them and have ample supplies, but haven't quite figured out what to do with the collections. i'm not quite housebroken enough to do well in labs and/or kitchens.

 

[Dynamic]

@arfie interested in the beehive and herbs are you selling somewhere I can see what you have!?

 

[arfie]

not even in my dreams. . . marketing, especially retail, is even more civilized than labs and kitchens.

what i have is all natural piles that i most often just compost. for me, the self-care bennies are in caring for the livestock and scouting for the wild plants. i've played with the lab and kitchen potentials, but that part feels like work to me. i'm often called, "a bull in a china shop" when i mingle with lovers of the great indoors.

 

[user27357]

play guitar. It is called "wood shedding". off by yourself making mistakes and pushing your abilities. sometimes the dog bites you and sometimes you bite the dog. All good.

 

[user27357]

shoot historically significant firearms.
One in particular that George Custer would be familiar with, among others.
Reloading my own ammo at historically correct pressures so as not to cause trouble and using the old iron sights to get reasonable accuracy makes it more fun than dangerous, there can be 57 varieties of black gun at the range but my antiques get the glances. I am not a gun nut but a mechanical mind is trying to shout over the noise here and spending some time with the old rifles gives that voice some covering fire for the ones I am trying not to hear for awhile.

 

[user27357]

go fishing. So sad that when I last licensed my boat, I got the tags and took them to my "don't lose these tags" thumbtack and found the expired ones, still unused. That has to change. It's silly really, pulling fish from their habitat by their lips. But they taste good so I still like doing it, even if I seem to have better things to do most of the time.

 

[Friday]

Reading, writing, art, movie/series marathons, gymnastics, circus arts, sculling, swimming, diving, driving, shooting, horseback riding, exploring.

Spoiler: ETA

I don’t think I’ve ever really parsed out, before, the things that to truly enjoy/have fun with?

- Need to be done alone
- Prefer to do alone
- Prefer to do with others
- Need to be done with others

Apart from the trial & error of “this is supposed to be fun, WTF is wrong with me/this/life, the universe, everything?!?” of trying to do things with others that I need to do alone, and vice versa. <<< None of which is a problem when I’m doing well, there’s an easy/instinctive leaning towards whatever activity suits best, and making allowances for those that don’t. But when I’m doing badly? I can’t even seem to manage the basics in life, much less the depth and vivacity of a life well lived.

So having a bit of a cheat sheet? Things to whilst alone, things to do with others, things to do that easily lend to either?

Useful as hell.

 

[Actualise]

Meditate is #1

 

[Wendell_R]

Sit in a comfy chair with a cup of herbal tea and read a book. Walk through the woods. Work on my model railroad. Take our dog for a walk.

 

[Mach123]

I do a lot of stuff. I like being alone. I like cleaning the house. My iPhone is an unending source of amusement . I like to cook. I care for my handicapped daughters and they need exercise so we have always to be trying to think up things to do with them. It’s like being alone sadly because neither has communication skills above that of a five year old. Having a house is a full time job. I play the guitar. This saved me during covid . Being alone is getting a break. Down time.

 

[whiteraven]

Most everything I do, I do alone, but my *favorite* things are walking in the woods, taking photographs, spending time with my cats, reading, writing.