Over the last few days I've been thinking about just how much we lump upon our lives. At work we have many commitments, and sometimes one person can be doing two or three people's jobs. If they cut staff it puts more pressures on the workers but you have to do it because if you don't, someone else certainly will. Then there can be courses and training and out of work work and then you have your personal life, familial pressure, financial pressure, romantic pressure and priorities. For many of us, not a single hour of our life is spent doing nothing, but working for someone, something and trying to push ourselves more and more in the direction of either our future, or playing catch-up.
Are we pushing ourselves too much? Our phones now take emails, Facebook updates, Tweets, Skypes, WhatsCrapp and we are barely left alone for a minute without someone wanting something. During the working day we eat at our desks, or rushing between appointments, eating wraps while walking along train platforms or ready meals in the office, microwave dinners at home because there is no time to cook.
Where will this all end up? These days, in spite of having a busy life I try to take at least two hours a day to do nothing. Just listen to music and wind down. Is there anyone who doesn't have time to do that?
Are we pushing ourselves too much? Our phones now take emails, Facebook updates, Tweets, Skypes, WhatsCrapp and we are barely left alone for a minute without someone wanting something. During the working day we eat at our desks, or rushing between appointments, eating wraps while walking along train platforms or ready meals in the office, microwave dinners at home because there is no time to cook.
Where will this all end up? These days, in spite of having a busy life I try to take at least two hours a day to do nothing. Just listen to music and wind down. Is there anyone who doesn't have time to do that?
