Text: Mu Yan 01 I made toast last night until 1:30. When the toast went into the oven and was about to be baked, I picked up a paintbrush and painted with colored pencils while waiting for the bread to be cooked.

This is not the first time that I have been making bread and drawing in the middle of the night.

The last time I made a dirty bag, I didn’t expect it to take so long, from evening to 2 a.m.

As for painting, whenever I have free time, even if it only takes 20 minutes, I will pick up the paintbrush.

My husband has told me in confusion more than once, "I don't understand why I am so willing to spend time painting."

I am not a person who majored in painting, and I am not particularly good at painting now. I am just a person who has just started to learn painting.

This Spring Festival, I spent a lot of time eating, painting, and reading.

In fact, it’s not just this Spring Festival, I have been like this long before the Spring Festival. I will do these things whenever I have time.

02 During the Spring Festival this time, my father-in-law and mother-in-law came to our house to celebrate the New Year and help take care of the children. My husband was also at home.

Compared with before, I have more time to do my own things. During that time, when I occasionally shared my paintings and my delicious food, people always asked me, "You have two children to take care of, and you have a team."

I need to bring it. Is there still time to draw and make food?

In fact, what I really do is not just these, but I can share food and draw pictures, so many people know that I am painting, making food, and reading books.

So why do I have so much time?

In fact, I haven't thought about this. I am a person who can't be idle. At every stage, I will let myself participate in something and learn something.

At this stage, I was learning to draw, playing with food, and starting to return to my previous state of reading.

As for where the time comes from, to be honest, I make plans for myself every day for the next day.

In many cases, plans cannot be completed because I am overloaded with plans. The purpose is to allow myself to do these things whenever I have free time during the day.

Actually no, when I regard painting, eating, reading, everything I want to do as a kind of enjoyment, it will not be tiring.

I don’t like shopping. When I go shopping, I buy several items online at once.

I don’t like playing games, and I am a person who has no talent for games.

I have a good sense of time for many things, so I won't easily do something that I think is particularly boring.

Once I'm done with work, or the kids are in bed, I go and do whatever I want.

I do these things as my way of relaxing.

Just like many people regard eating snacks and watching TV series as their own way of relaxing.

When we have time to eat snacks and watch TV series, I will have time to draw and cook delicious food.

According to this statement, there is really nothing special about it.

03 Some friends told me that I also want to learn painting, this or that, but I am usually very busy at work and very tired when I come back, so I don’t want to do anything.

Is it because I’m busy and don’t have time that I don’t want to do it?

I don’t think so. It’s because we don’t love it enough. If we love something enough, we’ll still do it if we get busy.

It's not because of some chicken-blood theory. If you really want to learn, why don't you have time? It's because you don't have enough willingness.

Yes, it’s because the willingness is not enough, and the more direct reason for the lack of willingness is that we simply don’t love that thing as much as we imagined.

If we love, we will think that work is over, we are so tired, and I can use this to relax ourselves.

Just like we reward ourselves with a delicious meal after hard work.

So in our lives, a lot of the time it's not because of time management problems, but because we don't really want to do that thing from the bottom of our hearts.