you need to be slow maxxing. you need to be reading long, fat books. you need to be making 48 chocolate chip cookies. you need to spend hours watching wildlife. you need to spend 15 mins making coffee. you need to breathe in and out. you need to be slowwwwwww
Be me. Make coffee. Forget you made it. Drink it cold later.
Fuuuuuck I forgot my tea. It’s still warm. Thanks
That’s how I make tea. Steep it for a few hours. Then throw it out and try again.
I made a delicious 5-hour ginger tea. It nearly burnt my nostrils off.
If you don’t mind peppermint it is a great tea to do this with.
Tastes good hot or cold with ice and you can steep it for a long time without it getting bitter.
If you forget it just put it in the fridge when you encounter it later.
I can’t second this, fresh my peppermint tea tastes like peppermint, when I let it steep too long it tastes, let’s say, leafy and more like spearmint, and leaves a feeling in my mouth like I’ve chewed on rubber. The freshness is gone, I guess the menthol evaporates. I take two bags, and let it steep for no more than 5 minutes.
I hope my descriptions make sense, taste is hard to describe!
That’s fair, I like that spearmint taste and am not sure I’ve ever noticed that mouth feel.
I guess YMMV
Be me, have a coffee machine that needs 30 minutes to preheat. Forget you preheated it and let it go into energy savings mode. Reheat it and forget it again. Have a headache for half the day because you’re feeling the addiction. Take a nap.
i love my aeropress. boil the water, actively make it in a couple minutes, then pour into an insulated mug you can’t put in the microwave so when it inevitably sits on your desk for a day you can’t put it in the microwave.
Fitness is my slow hobby. Nobody is gonna get swole in 30 days. Not even in 3 years. The results pile up though. It’s like gardening but for my body. I started with an arid wasteland and it’s slowly blooming.
This is my legit new life goal.
I can’t even sit on the couch without feeling guilty about how could I best utilize this time. What is the highest value thing I can watch? No mediocre watching for me…
I want to slow down and actually experience the life that is rushing past me. It’s going to take a lot of life changes and I have to complete some obligations first. But life is too short to be speed-running the whole damn thing like this.
oh, dude, it’s fucked how hard it is to just sit down and do nothing. like even to just sit there and have a few sips of coffee in the couch in the morning looking out at dawn progress, all I can think is “I should clock in and get to work so I can clock out earlier”
I’ve really been trying to work on it this year, but there’s just so much I want to do. and then I have little motivation to actually do it after a long annoying day at work having had to make too many decisions and deal with too much bs that somebody else should have handled.
oh don’t get me started. i literally started the unofficial “stop and smell the roses” club in my college because people were practically sprinting from class to class and i just took a leisurely stroll. someone asked me why i wasn’t running, and i said it’s far more enjoyable to walk slowly and enjoy everything that was around me. after two weeks there were like 20 of us.
I find 3d printing to be my slow hobby. Oddly relaxing to set something up, hit go, and come back several hours later to a completed piece. Very mesmerizing to watch, too.
3d printing is amazing. It’s teaching me patience.
I got a Bambu printer this year (upgrade from an Ender3) and now my experience is kind of the opposite lol. I don’t have to wait overnight to iterate designs, I can just print something in an hour and a half and test it, then print another in another couple hours…
allows me to get tasks/projects done in a day or two instead of a week. and because it prints so quickly, I tend to stay busy during printing (so I’m ready to continue when it is complete) instead of fucking off to relax like I would during an eight hour print.
Way ahead of you on this, I’ve been doing this for years!
And who can for get the classic of napping in the shade of a tree on a nice warm summer day.
Really appreciate this, you can count me as on board. (obviously, see username)
Malazan Book of the Fallen is the book series you’re looking for
Or the Guin Saga
Malazan Book of the Fallen
I’ve read book one! Maybe I should revisit the series
First few books were good but after a while I got too tired of all the time jumps and whatnot.
Graphic novels with almost a thousand pages
I’m guessing you even have a particular graphic novel did you have in mind?
The Complete Elf quest and there are multiple volumes
Tai chi time!
I thought it said you need to make 48 hour chocolate chip cookies and was wondering what recipe for cookie’s really needed 48 hours(not some put in fridge and forget about them) and where can I get this recipe because I’d like to try it.
I like that
