Flow is freedom

Six weeks ago, I stepped into a break I had truly earned. My only rule? Spend every single minute doing what I love.

No grand travel plans. No beach-hopping itineraries. No calendars. Instead, I wrote down a list of things I had always wanted to do but never could because life happened, work happened, and the hamster wheel kept spinning. The list might surprise you: it was all about learning. Not the kind you squeeze into an hour between meetings, but the locked-in, lose-track-of-time kind of learning.

So, I chucked discipline, ignored the calendar, and followed my curiosity. For five glorious weeks, I stayed in study mode with one week away for travel (because my mom felt i need a break lol). As a self-confessed learning nerd, I was in heaven. GPT became my study partner, my tutor, my sparring mate. All I needed was AI subscriptions, high-speed internet, and a pot of coffee. In the past 15 days alone, I learned more than I had in the past 15 years. Classrooms are optional now. Even discussions and debates can happen here with AI. If you have the zeal, the sky is not even the limit anymore.

My days looked something like this:

Wake at 4 AM, deep in flow until 9 AM
Nap, then share banter with Mom (soap opera summaries included)
Back to learning from 11 AM to 2 PM. All learning stopped at 2 PM everyday.
The rest of the day was to Run errands, watch OTT, catch up socially, walk in the beautiful weather
Eat whatever the heart fancied, then end the night with Tetris or Blockudoku and some stand-up.

That is my definition of best life. No stepping out, no agenda, just joy in motion. And the output? Massive. In such a short span, I have produced more than I imagined.

From now on, I am gifting myself one day each month to live like this, off the grid and off the calendar, doing only what I love. For me, that is learning. For you, it could be painting, writing, gardening, cooking. Whatever makes you lose sense of time.

Because sometimes, heaven is just a day where you follow your flow.

P.S: I scrapped everything I wrote and something new has emerged in the past two days. So what you are seeing is what I trashed 😉