My org has like 8 events on the calendar for this upcoming week and I’ll need to attend at least 2-3. The first one isn’t until tomorrow but seeing those updates just drained me of energy and now all I want to do is lay down and tune out the world.
The worst is having an end of day appointment. I’m thinking about it all day so I don’t miss it and can’t get anything done.
I suffer from this as well. Why isn’t there a word to describe this condition? I bet the Germans have a precise term for it.
If I make plans in advance, they feel like obligations and I immediately want to flake. If I don’t make plans in advance, I get anxious and say no because I don’t have time to prepare mentally. The only way to get me to do anything is to hit the sweet spot right around 24 hours in advance, which gives me just the right amount of time to not feel either pressured or unprepared.
I don’t do a lot of things.
buddy you have no idea
Yes constantly. It’s the worst feeling.
yes, having one obligation in the evening can completely sap me for the entire day as i fixate on that one thing i have to do later. then i get irritable about how i never have any time and basically turn into gradgrind’s wife from ‘hard times’ “Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. It really is a most extraordinary circumstance that it appears as if I never was to hear the last of anything!'”