All Work, No Play?

Do you ever finish your work day and feel exhausted? Why is that?

I know this seems like a silly question but I honestly do enjoy my job and as a kid growing up I’d always hear “find a job that you enjoy and it won’t feel like work.” I disagree. This is a job I enjoy and it absolutely feels like I do work each day. It is a work I enjoy but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel draining. I really enjoy writing as well and as much as it feeds me, it also can drain me at the same time—don’t ask me how that is possible.

Thinking about it logically, my job is a lot about numbers but I also talk with a lot of people and whether we mean to or not, we tend to carry a lot of our worries and concerns around. Very infrequently do I have a conversation that doesn’t stray into the state of our country, our current administration, global issues, economic issues… you get the point. We are a species of worry warts. Not all of us perhaps, but a lot of us. As such, a lot of my conversations feel very restorative in nature. I want to make folks feel better and I want them to spend more time living and less time worrying. It is hypocritical because I’m always trying to talk myself into the same thing but I’m also a firm believer in the cliché that life is short (cliché and fact for many). Why spend so much time worrying about things that we may not be able to control or that quite frankly may not have any grounds for being valid? We are at time our worst enemy and sometimes we just need a shake back into reality.

Happy writing this week and my suggestion (and something I plan to do myself) is you reward yourself for all your hard work!