The thing about being jobless can be summed up in one word: dull.
Why ? well if you ask me that is because every day is mundane. Most veteran bum would have the same activities every day, which leads to a boring lifestyle. That's why even a jobless person would have a schedule that intends to dodge that bored feeling. Luckily, in this digitalized world, we have many choices to get away from being bored.
Let me tell you my schedule as a jobless bum. I wake up late in the evening as I should be because there's no reason to wake up in the morning right? after that, I scroll through social media for a bit so that I don't lose touch with reality outside.
Nightime is the prime time for most jobless people. At night I push my rank in the online games, sometimes I did that with my other jobless friends until late at night. We did this almost every night. It almost seems like an obligation to me but I don't mind that as long as I can fill my schedule.
Now, usually, I only play until dawn around 3 AM. As for the remaining time, before the sun rises, I usually have varied activities to do. Sometimes I just sit there staring at my wall overthinking about life. To be precise, the time I spend doing nothing but overthinking has increased lately.
What is this feeling? maybe I was feeling guilty for my parents? Is this how I'm gonna spend the rest of my life? When will my saving run out?
No matter how hard I tried to push it aside, it will always come back to me and haunt me. Falling asleep seems to be an arduous task. Is this what people called depression? If I have so much money with me, will I still overthink like this? If money could solve it, would it be called a depression? I don't know, all I know is I should do something about this overthinking habit of mine.
So lately, some activity that I enjoy and makes me forget about all of my problems is reading web novels. Reading all those web novels seems like escapism to me. Whenever I began to overthink something, I could just shut my brain and read those stories.
I believe that at least I will be able to survive this lifestyle without overthinking for quite some time. But I guess I'm wrong here.
Why, you ask? It's probably because right now I'm waking up as per usual only to find that I'm in a foreign room.
While I stare at those foreign ceilings I already know that this won't be another dull day.