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Suddenly Having Too Much Free Time
Chasing meaning and self-improvement in a different way this time
Recently, my life has been defined by a lack of free time and needing every minute of every day to be used as efficiently as possible and optimized.
The past three years, I have worked during the day as a special education teacher and gone to law school at night. It has required being busy from 7 a.m. to 9:30 or 10 p.m. some days, and on some semesters, I had this schedule Monday to Thursday.
I just finished law school yesterday. It’s about to be summer, so the school year will end, and I am moving on to be a lawyer next year. Suddenly, as of mid-June, I won’t have either obligation anymore. I can literally sit at home all day long until I start my new job.
Since I am about to graduate law school, I have to study for the bar exam, too, this summer. This is a stressor in itself and not something I want to leave to chance. But I know myself and will exhaustively listen to lectures in my free time and leave no stone unturned. I will complete as many multiple-choice and essay questions as I can, make a routine, and do everything in my power to pass.
I have done a preliminary, cursory studying where I listen to some bar exam lectures and then answer multiple choice questions or…
