I know the feeling of having a tab open for weeks, then months, and months… In my case, it was a bit weird as the motivation to write the text was there, and I even knew what to write. However, every time I was ready to dig into it, I had something else more urgent that popped up, and the tab stayed open untouched.
Reading your post also made me thinking about the possibility of doing something different from work on my way back home (or on my way to work). Yes I know, I jumped on any single sentence unrelated to the main meat :). During my daily trips, I have 10 minutes of metro, followed by an hour of train, and then a 10-minutes drive. But in fact, I would not be able to use that time for having fun activities unrelated to work. Those 90 minutes are 60 real minutes of work where I actually do a lot of things (using the atmosphere of the train, isolated from any distraction). Amputating my days off these 2 hours (I only work in the train, but you guessed it I imagine) is just not an option, being already over-busy with the normal working hours… Lucky you I would like to say (although my situation is my choice and it is up to me to change it if I really wanted to).
When we consider the problems in our lives, we kind of skirt around our self, and start to point fingers elsewhere.
It is election time in France, and this definitely applies to every single candidate for the president position… That’s unfortunately the easy way that most like.
For the rest of the text (and the main topics of your post ;) ), this aligns with how I behave in my everyday’s life. Trying to do some good and fun (I think that the fun part was somehow implicit in this piece of text) around here, with the little knowledge and possibilities that are mine.
It was nice to read from you! :)
Hey the stuff around the main meat was written for a reason, after all. Not much of a reason, but a reason =)
This is interesting to me. You are consciously choosing not to. Well, I've only ever known you as a workaholic, even on thankless tasks such as StemSocial, for years. Presumably, you believe in the things you're working on and that has deep value. So maybe rather than think and complain of it as a curse, maybe alter into a more positive perspective around what you're doing ^__^ (I'm sure you already do in real life situations).
That being said, HEALTH.
Oh, you actually match my commute, assuming that's each way. I always get comfort knowing i'm not the only one. TBH I'd probably waste the extra 3 hours a day at home. At work, I have the whole hall to myself, with guitars and pianos and 7-piece speaker system... I am much more constructive here than I could ever be staying at home an extra 3 hours. It sounds like I'm forcing myself to justify it, but I genuinely have improved my craft a ton this way the last couple of years.
Yeah I think many of us just do this as part of our upbringing or just general life development. But it seems so many people are drowned and trapped in a mindset that just isn't healthy and have literally had no experience thinking in another way. Echo chambers and all.
Thanks for the chunky comment =) I feel Hive is still alive!
I am indeed already very positive and passionate with everything I do. Or I just don't do it. You cornered me well (even if we only met briefly in real life) ;)
Why are justifications needed? This is a choice. As soon as we are happy with it, it is fine. And there is no free lunch. Opting for a given choice comes with other pros and cons. I could say 'positivity hit me again' (maybe this positivity ;) ), couldn't I?
Haha that's an interesting way to plug. Kinda fun seeing your name on top of people a world apart in all aspects working together one one thing =D
This was a paper with a good friend of mine from Beijing, who unfortunately passed away last June (he was in his mid-thirties :( ).