Autopilot

2025-12-31

As you stablish your routine, if you’re like me you might want to make the most of each moment. Attempting to be as efficient as possible with it.
(Even if seeking efficiency might be missing the value of the process).

Because you don’t trust yourself to do good with your time while alone you “sign” yourself up for things. Language classes, some sportsy practice, hanging out with friends over lunch or dinner, … Each filling up the week, most of them filling specific time blocks. Becoming routine, so you don’t even think—because you don’t need to—about how you’re spending your time.

Eventually you might just end up finding yourself act in autopilot. Your schedule so tight that you don’t give yourself time to think. When you’re tired at the end of the day, if you even have a slot to spare, you’ll just watch a series, read a book, play a game,… You’ll just seek to do something relaxing, not wanting to do the hard work of thinking. Even pushing back your sleep time because you deserve some relaxing time.

And it piles up.

You just become less energetic and so more prone to let the autopilot trail the course for you.

Without stopping to think if the things you’re doing, if what’s filling your routine, are things that you enjoy that much. If they’re “Hell Yeah”s or mere “Good enough”s.

So. Please sleep. And please stop to think on what you’re doing. Take 30 minutes or an hour somewhere and just go through the list of things you’re doing. Are they still worth doing to you? Isn’t there something else that you truly want to venture on? Or perhaps just spend more time on one of the things that you already do.

Just—beware of the autopilot.