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I’m Not Making Work Related Resolutions This Year

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

John Lennon

Did you know that the human body can make a tent passably warm, like a comfortable yet fresh cocoon, even in the blistering cold of a Scottish night? Or that a foxes scream sound like a human child in the wilderness? Do you know that in the quieter parts of the world you can see by the light of the stars and moon quite easily - or that skinny dipping near Santa Monica pier is certain to end in a close call with the coast guard?

If you didn't, you do now - I found these things out in the quiet, spontaneous moments between work, hustle, education, and planning. I learned these things in the snatched moments, the frenetic moments, the blurred moments, and so I have very little recollection of any details. These sharp, little facts come through, however, and remind me of how lucky I have been to have friends who don't prioritize the 'hustle' and forced productivity (something I now think is unhealthy) but instead want to live. Over the last three years, work has become my life - I have let these moments slip away and I am neither wealthier nor happier. I make no resolutions about work for 2022 because my life cannot be about work - it has to be funded by work, not made of it.

My Restful Resolutions

Rest does not have to mean stagnation or inertia, but can instead be about restoration - see how those words nestle together so nicely? Some of my resolutions involve sleep, most are about other kinds of rest. The goal, either way, is to let life in little by little and to allow myself to flourish, little by little, in ways that don't centre my working life. Read More