I feel like breaking the series for a day to write about something different…something about life, time, and everyone?
Unsure if it’s simply coincidence, or it’s real that the posts with the vibes of “getting carried away by everyday work” is getting a little bit more. I don’t read every single post on my feed, but it just happens that they are there within scrollable range when I’m reading. And at the same time, it also happens that I’m pretty much stuck in the same situation...there’s so many to do but there are only 24 hours, send help?
Ironically I’m on a semester break...maybe I’m the only one around that is more busy during holidays?
Sure I will want a cup of something like this here...preferably with more milk and no sugar...
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On my usual routine to fetch the kids back from school today (yes, that’s literally my “job” during semester breaks, apart from keeping the house tidy and other “emergency errands” that happen from time to time), the DJ on the radio station I was tuning in on the car shared a pretty nice quote, which her friend told her when she was stressed…
Remember that no matter how hard you work, there’s always more! So take breaks, work’s always there for you. Love yourself a little more.
The quote is surprisingly true…
Work is like the sun, it comes every day, absolutely no exceptions.
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Unlike most living things on Earth, we humans are pretty horrible when it comes to making decisions that are compliant with the priorities we should take. Let’s take this situation: In order to do work for whatever purpose you have, you need to have a sane mind and of course a somewhat healthy body that does not collapse when you least expect it. But okay, people still skip meals, sleep, and any rest just to get something done. Weird but that’s you and me.
Sometimes it also gives me the question...what happens if we choose to postpone something to readjust ourselves so that we can do the job better at a later time? Will you be trading the amount of work done in favour of the final quality of the work that you have done? Or do we even have the choice at all, during certain times?
Sit and think?
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Actually, thinking a little bit will tell the truth: Sometimes it isn’t you who are making the decisions anyway. Sometimes things just happen to be in that way and you are forced to do something in a way that you don’t like - skip quality for quantity, skip your food for your job, etc. Or, it’s another you who is making the decisions for you while you are too burned up to even think thanks to the work you need to do. And of course, the other you isn’t that good at decision making. It’s your instinct, and that thing doesn’t use the brain at all.
In the end it probably still boils down to humans - us, and whoever that is involved around you. There’s a lot of “if”s here - If the job giver considers a little bit more, asks a little more, if the job taker is honest with the situation, if pushing away the task or postponing it is a valid choice, if some tasks can be viewed as skippable, if there’s that many choices at all…
...and if we just snatched our instinct back, probably we’ll see our everyday stuff a lot more clearer to get back to the controlling side of ourselves. Who knows?
See, I'm also pretty burned up to even think properly…
But maybe there’s one thing for sure, is that we should always consider taking a break as an option...love yourself more, right?
Here, take yours...
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Deep inside me, I’m also considering another possibility...can I just let the laziness flow over me until I get the adrenaline to push myself to do those work in a speed faster than what physics allow? I mean, that’s what I’m good in…
...probably only works for me as well…
--Lilacse
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