When we join back office

Today while we are all working from home and we are locked down, the social media getting flooded with posts on how all of us are pursuing our hobbies and also trying new ones. It seems like Suddenly we have a lot of time. I always wonder is it true? Are the days now clocking 25 hours, instead of 24? Then how come we have more time? How is it possible that the same us, who always complain about not getting any time for ourselves have started finding time.

Let’s take a hypothetical situation, on an average most of us stay 30 - 45 minutes away from office. Which means over and above our office time we are today getting 1 - 1.5 hours extra. But then most of us are also doing household work which is almost covering this buffer time. We still are able to find time. We still are happy relaxed and stress free. Most of us also talk about putting extra hours at work while working from home. Then how come we are able to still find time?

I think the answer lies within us. The answer is “awareness”. Earlier we were so busy in our lifestyle that we had no “awareness”  about the buffer time. We always complained about how busy our life is and how we don’t have time for ourselves. Today when there was a break in normalcy, the “awareness”  increased. Today we are more aware of our time and hence we can also find time to do things which we like.

So when lock down opens, don’t lose your “awareness” , continue doing what you are doing today. Lock down has proved that we are not so busy as it looks like. It’s just that we were not aware that we have time. Follow your passion not only while working from home but also when you start going to office. Look forward to connecting with it after work the way you do it today. Keep time for your hobby in your busy day don’t take away the time that you have given your hobby today, when you join back to work from office. Don’t get back to your normal life when things get normal.

Let your “awareness”  be free the way it is during lock down.

Don’t lock your “awareness” down when the lock down opens.