A Few Counterintuitive Ideas

UPDATE: 4th January, The way out of burnout

The beginning of 2021 marked the point when some of us were bracing with hope for the year that lied ahead. The year that we hoped to be “better” than the one that we were leaving behind. Little did we know we should have braced for impact instead.

For me personally, if 2020 was bad enough then 2021 wiped the last shreds of whatever mental resilience or energy I had left in me. I’m entering 2022 pretty much on some kinda pandemic cruise control. Time as measured by calendar days no longer matters, the majority of the human contact happens over bits and bytes and, yet, “things” can still get worse. They call it the “new normal”. Whatever. At least I’ve survived so I got that goin’ for me which is nice.

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