Unproductive Sunday
By: Pasindu Ranasinghe
Tags: Sri Lanka, Productivity, Procrastination, Blog, Lazy

I woke while everything was dark. I felt my phone across the bed. Damn it. I forgot to plug it into the charger. I must have slept while using it. (which happens quite regularly these days) I plugged my phone, looked at the time: 4.45, dad might not be up yet cause it’s a Sunday. I head to the bathroom and washed my face. I thought I’d be up like an early bird that catches the worm, but no, my mind was blank. The idea of doing something productive doesn’t enter my mind. (Honestly, that’s been the case for the past six months) I sleep again.

Sigh!

I open my eyes, the blinds still covering the window, but I can clearly see that the sun is up. I get out of bed grumpily. Eats breakfast. Dad said he is going to visit his friend’s house. (the friend is in Canada, dad has more or so become a caretaker for his home) He asked whether I would come, I didn’t answer straightforwardly, which usually means ‘no’. (What a bitch I am)

He said to me to start studying if I’m home, but the thing is I haven’t done that for the last year or so. So no studying. I go back to bed and start playing games on my phone. (a driving simulation game, a cricket game, Call of Duty, and temple run 2) Even though I had my breakfast an hour ago, I start feeling like eating again. (no surprise since I have gained so much fat in the last six months)

Uber eats, that’s my saviour. I don’t need to move any muscles and I could easily receive food right to my doorstep. A double patty chicken burger, spicy hot dog, and a vanilla milkshake. That’s what I ordered. It was the first time I ordered from this place and let me tell you, the hot dog is out of this world. The best I’ve ever had. I needed that vanilla milkshake badly because of the spiciness of that hotdog, The burger was meh. Overall, I gave a five-star rating. I’ll be eating that hot dog again for sure.

Back to gaming. Very boring. Alone. On my bed.

Lunch comes around, and here we are; back to eating a large plate of rice and curry. Burp! I need a nap. A good two hours. Wake up at four in the evening, Dad’s back. We drink some tea and I catch up with him.

Back to doing nothing.

I watched a few dumb Tik Tok videos. More games.

Now I’m scrolling through Instagram. I’m starting to dream about starting photography as a hobby for the millionth time. I sincerely hope I make a start at least now. Oh! damn it. We all know the chances of it happening — 0.01%. (I’m still hopeful, or you can say delusional) Scroll through more photography inspiration and even a camera store website checking out all the Canon and Nikon DSLRs like I’m going to buy one today. (I don’t even have the money to buy such toys)

Dinner. Watching TV. Boring and uneventful. Is this what my life has come to? I feel sorry for myself.

There’s the writing thing I did a while back. Heads to Medium.com. My free blog is still here. Delete a few of the old stories.

‘New story’

I click on it and start typing, writing my truth which is quite a sad reality. I think this is the best moment of today. I’m writing something after a long time. I think I’m going to read the remaining fifteen pages of the book I’ve been reading on my commute to work in the past couple of months. It’s a great read, I’ll tell you more about it later. Who knows, I might properly shut down for the day in and totally crush it tomorrow.

I hope and will do my best not to fuck up tomorrow. Okay, that’s it. That’s my story about today: unproductive Sunday.