How to have more fulfilling weeks?

completedit

Coming into winter now I want to have better weeks.

At the moment my routine is work, gym, walk, TV and maybe some reading here and there. I need to start doing more with my week. Reading is good but I feel I should start going to a pub or cafe on the weekend and using that to make it a more rewarding experience. However I do run the risk of looking like a benny.

Before I'd have a weekend night out to look forward to but these are becoming more infrequent. I have considered going out alone but again, might be a step too far.

Also considering some sports but hard to find something interesting.

What do you guys do with your weeks? I feel Covid has made me appreciate the coming and going of a week. At the start it was so nice when everything was just steady and calm but this made up pressure of schedules and commitments might be what give life some meaning.

corner of hells

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WTF is a benny?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118119789#Comment_118119789

Im.guessing a homosexual??

As for the OP,why not volunteer for some charity/sports club etc,

Mister Vain

A hike up the Wicklow mountains.

Ger Roe

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Benny from Crossroads? - A simple minded character in a 1970's afternoon TV soap. Benny Hawkins (with his iconic woolen hat) was played by actor Paul Henry.

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/529548/Crossroads-TV-soap-50th-anniversary-tribute

If you are of a certain age, you might have been called a Benny at some stage.

ablelocks

Volunteer - in something that you’re interested in.

night course in something interesting for you, not for work. Ideally not online, but not sure if in person courses are back or not

set up an online account and stream yourself doing stuff with vegetables - Cookery and / or Porn

Mister Vain

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It's a good job you put a full stop after vegetables there or I would have been getting worried. 🤣

Gregor Samsa

If you are of a certain age, you might have been called a Benny at some stage.

In school in the 70s and 80s, kids would ask “are you a benny tied to a tree?”. When the subject replied “no!”, they would loudly proclaim “BENNY ON THE LOOSE! BENNY ON THE LOOSE!”

I think part of the amusement was that the meaning of “benny” was never actually known.

ablelocks

you’re quite right, that full stop changed the nature of what i meant. Fixed now, thanks mister vain

corner of hells

Amazing how helpful AH can be.

I can remember kids saying there's a smell of Benjy of ya .

Ger Roe

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That's from another iconic soap, an Irish one this time - The Riordans. Benjy was a main character played by Tom Hickey who died earlier this year.

Benjy even featured in an early single release by Brendan Grace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBdxRkpetyM

Donald Trump

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Ah the memories!

Trigger Happy

Get yourself the new Football manager 2022 game. It will be easter before you know it.

Hard to recommend new pursuits to others because there are simply so many. And often you have no idea what they would even life.

Hell sometimes I do not even know myself what I will like. Some recent hobbies when I first tried them I did not expect to get anything out of them at all. But I was blown away by how much I got into it.

Horse Riding is a good example. I took up lessons recently thinking I would get bored with it after a few. But I am amazed how much I have enjoyed it and am quite addicted now. Nothing would have suggested to me I would be into it before I tried it.

And awhile back my mates banded together and got me a high quality bow and custom arrows. There too I am shocked at just how much I love getting out to use it and practice with it. I can lose hours doing it. And again I never expected to be all that into it.

So really - just try everything and anything. Fulfilment and meaning will find you.

silliussoddius

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Have you combined the hoss riding with the bow and arrows? The auld village pillaging would be great craic.

I am currently fostering something of a viking beard too alright. But I am afraid that will be coming off soon :)

Just back from California where I got to use the bow to actually shoot things. So that was new. Back to shooting at trees now.

It's definitely my new best thing. A Oneida Kestral - the same one used on the TV show "Arrow". Love the thing.

seamus

You've got no commitments, you have never been and never will be more free than you are right now.

Use your time to do something you've always wanted to do. You are never too old to start something new, unless you are physically incapable. The only thing standing in your way, is you.

Want to learn music? Buy a keyboard and a beginners' music book.

Want to do some carpentry? Get yourself some wood and some tools and start building ****.

Want to know how to ride a skateboard? Get down to Smyths, buy yourself a board and knee/elbow pads and get out there.

Want to move into a different industry? Find yourself a remote or evening course that's relevant, and sign up to it.

Wanderer78

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winter is probably more hill walking for me, was on the mountains by myself over the weekend, trying to suss camping spots for winter camping, alone, stunning day up there, you get to experience these type of situations, with not a sinner around

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