Basic Purpose

Hi

It’s been day 5.5 since i last went to work/or since i’ve been on leave – perspective – and I swear it feels like day 50. I’m totally cool with not working – that is if i have something ELSE to do, but no…not having anything consequential to do is stagnant at best, severely detrimental otherwise.

(Mental note to self: DON’T take so much leave at one go again, unless you’re planning to go overseas, or planning to take over the world.)

Actually, I HAVE been doing things. Many in fact. On top of going out every day except today, I’ve been diligently waking up before 830 (awesome ikr, except for one), reading Bild, working on apps, reading Time Traveler’s Wife and watching classic films. They are not too bad activities while they last, but just leave a huge void of purpose thereafter.

SO. May I suggest what we all need here is some purpose? Purpose, not as in i-am-who-i-am-to-be-a-difference-to-the-world – that’s for later – but just basic purpose. Like what keeps me going to work every morning is the prospect of going home every evening, or like what keeps me going through Mondays to Fridays is looking forward to Saturdays and Sundays, or like what keeps me going through NS is the prospect of ORDing in around one year.

Ahha convoluted enough, but hey, it works! Beats complaining.

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