This post contains PR samples, but all views are my own and unbiased. I always assumed it was better to be spontaneous and carefree. You know? Like those girls in the movies, big-hatted and long-eyelashed, ready to whisk our (floppy-haired, male) protagonist away on the sort of adventure that would open his eyes to a new way of being on a moment’s notice. So it has long been a source of frustration to me that I need the stability and… ordinariness of routine if I am to function in any way. While myself and my loved ones have been lucky enough to escape the most devastating impacts of the pandemic, the loss of my reason to get up and leave the house in the morning with my long-term shift to working from home has hit me harder than I could have ever expected. It didn’t help that, for a couple of months in the spring, I was on reduced hours, with the effect that I was never working for more than two days in a row. What do you do in that scenario but stay up far too late, doomscrolling your way to the dawn? It wasn’t until these last […]
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