staying home in bed on a weekday is not as glamorous as it sounds. first of all, everyone you know is at work, and secondly, the only thing on daytime TV are soap operas and courtroom dramas. i found myself flipping through the channels, hoping for something tolerable, something that required minimal brain power and could relax me at the same time.
that brings me to my next point about how hard it is for me to be home. my mind never stops. i'll spend most of my morning checking and responding to e-mails, and even when i tell myself to sign off, i'll usually be signing on later to catch up. i'll mentally check off a list of things i need to do, and then panic at how i could possibly get it all done, now that i'll be "short" 8 hours in the office. by the end of the day, in my quest to take it easy, sometimes i may end up more stressed than when it first started!
i read in a book once that it is difficult for americans to truly unwind, even while on vacation. the brain is always running, churning with thoughts of deadlines and projects and meetings. am i going to wake up one day and question how my life whizzed right by me, and all i have to show for it is a long and "rewarding" career? there's much more to it than that, isn't there?
lesson of the day: when at home, be at home.
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