Have you ever been in a phase where everyone around you is madly busy, trying hard to balance work and social commitments while you seem to be the only one who has all the time in the world? It’s that time when everyone you meet says “My God! You are so lucky to be working from home” or “I am so jealous of you! You have all the free time in the world”. But all along you have this niggling feeling that you seem to be the one missing out on something here. It’s like arriving in the middle of the movie when everyone seems to know something that you don’t. Of course you do get to read a few pages of a novel during a break or watch movies while you eat lunch. But do people ever think about what cabin fever can do to a sane, socially active person?
I now can empathise with women who take time off work for a year or so to have a baby. It’s the same kind of back-to-being-busy nerves that one has to fight when you are entrenched in the working-from-home mode or if you have taken a long break from work, and are then suddenly faced with a deluge of work and responsibilties. You are suddenly at sea. The feeling is no more as familiar as it used to be.
I know what it is now to be struck by a crippling sense of inadequacy or low confidence. This has nothing to do with lack of experience or anything like that. You have already been in high-pressure and highly demanding jobs. You have also handled the crazy deadlines and done the graveyard shifts. But after this lull, will your ship weather the storm? Do you have it in you to go back after a break and get back into the groove or will you fail?
-Relentlessly Restless
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