This morning, seeing I was lucky enough to work from home, I walked with Ian and collected rocks to throw in the river around the corner from my house. It had this all too familiar feeling of the lost days of work-life balance.
The great lockdown of 2020/2021 had unimaginable effects on people around me, but one of the benefits was the realisation of what work-life balance is. I had this stage where I had this tiny baby and I was able to walk with him for close to an hour every day – and still go work a full productive day.
I am currently, among other things, reading up on Stoicism. Stoicism is a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and more wise–and as a result, better people, better parents and better professionals. I would highly recommend reading more into it – with a pinch of salt of course. One of the principles is that time is a precious resource and maybe there are better things to do than sit in traffic on the commute every day. Maybe there is something in Ottis Redding just sitting on the dock of the bay all day long.
I understand the hippiness of the idea that we need to work less blah blah blah. I understand that there is a real tension between living a healthy existence and the pursuit of funds to do so. There is no real answer. I guess I still secretly pray that Margie and Steve will tell me that they have been lying to my brothers and I our whole lives and we are actually stinking rich.
For now, I am just trying to make time to throw rocks in a river in anticipation of the new aKing album.