You know what doesn’t get talked about enough? The boring everyday grind, and how good it actually is for you. It’s fine and dandy to talk about how you’re setting out on an adventure and to frame your life and your future as this very exciting thing that you’re keen to explore, but you know what? When it comes down to it, the predictable, mundane 9-5 has some wonderfully healing qualities to it.
Getting set up in my new flat has been exciting, don’t get me wrong. But it’s the fact I can get on with something like a normal day’s work that has been the most healing thing for me in this turbulent time in my life. Things are predictable at the office, I know what I’m doing, I’m the master of this domain, boring as it may sometimes be. This is something I can control and understand. Getting on a conference call to hammer out a customer facing PowerPoint presentation and waffling on about timelines? Sheer bliss.
It’s like a new honeymoon period with my job, really. I feel engaged and appreciative of what I have, now that I have this new found perspective of it. Long may it last!