Opportunity Cost and Unwinding

I saw a good number of movies recently such as Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Skyscraper. However, the anime movie, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms easily stood out the most. By the end of the movie, we saw the full journeys of many characters with gorgeous animation and a solid, original plot. I really cannot recommend it enough, and it helps that I came into the movie not knowing anything about it except for the synopsis, so I had no expectations going in. It’s becoming increasingly more difficult just to find good stories these days with so many remakes, reboots, money grabs, etc. 

With watching so many movies, I have a tough time finding the time to make my movie reviews for them in my Chris’s Storytelling Corner podcast. Finding time though has always been an issue with me especially having a full-time job and other extracurricular activities. There really is opportunity cost as one gets older, and doing things like writing, editing, podcasting and whatnot takes away from doing something else.

One thing that I lost sight of was dedicating time to just relax on my weekdays. I would go to work, go home, nap, do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or go to church, eat dinner, write/edit, then go to sleep with no time dedicated to just unwind. I think that it is important to do that and healthy both physically and mentally as well.