Unfortunately, you do need money for like 2/3rds of those

Wait, this isn't a shitpost

“Calm and boring days” is definitely underrated. When you’re an adult with daily responsibilities, it’s almost impossible to have an extended period, let alone an entire day, where there is nothing that comes up that needs to be done.

The “slow mornings” one is my favorite.

I don't see 'books telling tales of my conquests bound in the skin of my vanquished enemies' on that list.

Money and bitches

Bro this isn't funny. Give me back my luxuries right now

One that a lot of us take for granted is being able to breathe easily.

All I see is "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you".

How is this a shitpost

2/12 ain't that bad I guess.

That's absolutely perfect

Time to ditch capitalism in its current form.

I'd not only day ability to travel but ability to follow any passion. Setting the world, making art, opening a store, whatever makes you do b something you just love doing just for the activity itself.

Too bad the majority of them require disposable income.

Don't forget that "may you live in interesting times" is a curse

Real talk. I cried reading this. They're such simply things and it's the first thing they want to take.

Yeah, I've got one maybe two of that list. FML

Well, I make home-cooked meals, at least.

I've turned into a fairly materialistic person after starting a family, which kinda goes against this list, but I promise I have a point.

I've now started valuing my time in money, quite explicitly. Let's say an hour of my time is worth roughly 50 euros. I can make more money by doing more work, I'm not limited to 40 hours a week when feeling productive, nor am I required to fulfill 40 hours a week when I have a bad case of executive dysfunction. So any time I'm out running errands, it technically IS costing me this much money.

If I have the option to spend X hours doing something, I'm going to ask myself if it's worth it being X * 50 euros poorer for this. Spending time with friends or family? Absolutely worth it. Going on a walk to clear my mind? Still worth it. Drive around a bunch of drunk people for money? Nope, because nobody is going to be paying me enough to make it worth my while and it's not an activity I enjoy doing very often.

I'll make a similar calculation for spending money to gain more free time. If I'm working on my car and something is going to take me 10 hours, but my shade-tree mechanic 3 hours @ 35 euros an hour on his lift... Yeah, I'm going to pay him and hang around while he's doing it. I just bought 7 hours of free time (so 350 euros) for 105 euros.

That does NOT mean that when I make the calculation that I'm going to always actually use the saved time for work right away. I might just hang around at home, take the baby for a spin in the stroller, listen to podcast I enjoy... Hell, maybe I'll take a long ass bath. This is just a way to get myself thinking "hey, my time is worth too much to be doing this", because in the past I rarely said "No" to anyone who wanted me to do anything, and also I'd spend lots of time on anything that could save me a minuscule amount of money.

The Zhuangzi has a chapter called "Mastering Life."
Then again, I've been reading the whole book back to front dozens of times. It completely changed me, but for it all to sink it, it took a while.