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Are you addicted to being busy? Don’t know what to do now with shelter in place? I understand what you are feeling. I’ve been there.
Quarantine has made the best of us go stir-crazy at times. On one hand, we like that we have a lot more free time now. We get to watch those Netflix shows we’ve put off, try new workout routines, and catch up with old friends.
On the other hand, for those of us used to being so busy all the time, used to playing catch up on our own lives, we find ourselves unable to do the one thing us workaholics/extroverts love most — distract ourselves from our own thoughts.
Without our calendars filled brim to brim with things to do and people to see, we have to be okay with sitting in our own thoughts. We tend to overthink and self-criticize with too much time on our hands. Why are we still not doing X, Y, and Z with all this time? Why are we feeling like the grind is so meaningless now? What’s wrong with me? Those questions and thoughts understandably can be very scary. The realization we can’t numb ourselves as we once could can be even scarier.
This is how I became not just okay but happy with my newfound freedom from busyness:
- I realized I could not live like I once did.
