It took me at least a paragraph to groc "recreate", so you may not be getting the sharpest feedback.
It sounds like you're talking about a specific subsection of recreation, namely: spontaneous auto-recreation.
Some thoughts:
1. I would bet the most popular forms in modern western culture would be: masturbate, have a beer/stiff drink, smoke something. (These are not recommendations, just a guess.)
2. Sounds like you do know how to recreate: your TV, video game examples — but you see them as problematic, so the subtype of the subsection should be: "healthy" spontaneous auto-recreation.
3. Being that this article is book reviews, it's odd that reading isn't one of the options. Pick up whatever fantasy/sci Fi book you're currently enjoying and read 10 pages — what's wrong with that?
4. Defining fun as attention- or accomplishment-dependent, in my opinion, is very problematic. It certainly seems to take the fun out of it. The simple definition should be something akin to joy. Of course fun is not always simple — but I would shift all complex versions of fun into different categories, like fullfillment or something like that.
1- Perhaps that's my problem I don't do any of those
2- Healthy is probably a useful clarification
3- That is an option, but reading can me sleepy and as this is mostly an end of the day thing, that's not a great mix. Also a do a ton of reading so it's not really a "break".
4- I think you've hit on the problem, and I did specifically say I was broken, which is a near synonym to the word you're using, "problematic".
"...recreate"
It took me at least a paragraph to groc "recreate", so you may not be getting the sharpest feedback.
It sounds like you're talking about a specific subsection of recreation, namely: spontaneous auto-recreation.
Some thoughts:
1. I would bet the most popular forms in modern western culture would be: masturbate, have a beer/stiff drink, smoke something. (These are not recommendations, just a guess.)
2. Sounds like you do know how to recreate: your TV, video game examples — but you see them as problematic, so the subtype of the subsection should be: "healthy" spontaneous auto-recreation.
3. Being that this article is book reviews, it's odd that reading isn't one of the options. Pick up whatever fantasy/sci Fi book you're currently enjoying and read 10 pages — what's wrong with that?
4. Defining fun as attention- or accomplishment-dependent, in my opinion, is very problematic. It certainly seems to take the fun out of it. The simple definition should be something akin to joy. Of course fun is not always simple — but I would shift all complex versions of fun into different categories, like fullfillment or something like that.
1- Perhaps that's my problem I don't do any of those
2- Healthy is probably a useful clarification
3- That is an option, but reading can me sleepy and as this is mostly an end of the day thing, that's not a great mix. Also a do a ton of reading so it's not really a "break".
4- I think you've hit on the problem, and I did specifically say I was broken, which is a near synonym to the word you're using, "problematic".