Reminder to self: leaning in isn't the answer; but nor is quiet quitting. It's finding that balance between the two.
Balance
Better to be the hunter
Imagine Dragon's song Natural plays in the background. I'm singing to it. That's the price you payLeave behind your heart and cast awayJust another product of todayRather be the hunter than the prey Love this song. But when I got to "rather be the hunter than the prey" my head gave a subliminal shake. Something... Continue Reading →
When I hate running
When I went out the door for my run last evening I told myself, I'll start to enjoy it halfway through, a reminder of what had transpired during an earlier run when I was feeling like sh*t and yet went out anyway. During that run I started awful. Just moments before I'd had doubts swarming... Continue Reading →
Long Distance Running
I've recently gone back to regular long distance running, having averaged more than 20km per week in the last month, and even had a couple of 90 minute runs. I haven't done this since before the pandemic, so it's a pretty big deal for me. Before the pandemic these would be "medium" runs, and most... Continue Reading →
A little older
I hadn't read Camus for a while. A decade now; almost two. (It somehow confuses me to be able to talk about the past in decades and not years.) I remember him well as he was the first author whose books I bought at Kinokuniya, the bookstore I always found too high-end, but that carried... Continue Reading →
Proxies
As you may know, I love to type. I believe I did my first online typing test when I was about 15, and since then have been hooked. For the next 20-odd years I've been doing typing tests every once in a while, sometimes much more than once in a while, not necessarily to improve... Continue Reading →
The Lindy Effect of Not Writing
As I started to write a little less last year due to a job change and a significantly different life routine due to the pandemic and kids it, it became increasingly easier to write even less. The longer I went without writing, the easier it was to just not. Kind of like the Lindy Effect... Continue Reading →
Take a pause. Breathe.
On a run yesterday, I was listening to an audiobook that reminded me that we sometimes get too enamored about numbers - our salary; our weight; hours of sleep; even Covid-19 related deaths. Because we're so concerned about the numbers we sometimes forget to live. That is, until we are close to death. Today because... Continue Reading →
Waiting for the Muse
If you know me, you'd know that I changed jobs earlier this year. And with this change in job, my focus shifted as well. We all have 24 hours in a day, and how we spend those hours depends a lot on our priorities, on what we deem as important. And what we deem important... Continue Reading →
Books to help expand the mind
I've been writing a lot less here. I suppose life gets in the way, you know. Change in job; kids getting a little more demanding; prioritising running a little more than writing. But, you know... excuses (though the last point above regarding priorities probably is accurate -- life's gotten a little topsy-turvy of late and... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 