A year of home
This year has been a strange year and with that I have developed some strange new habits. Sitting on the kitchen table while listening to music, dancing in the middle of the living room when taking a break from work and sometimes I find myself closing my eyes and letting my thoughts drift away to places I didn’t yet know existed.
We live in a small apartment and the only place I can set up my home office is in the middle of our living room. Since the end of February 2020 I have been working from my kitchen table. No more meetings in person, no more conferences and no more train rides. Just me, myself and I sitting at home. Great, right? Well, at least most of the time. The apartment walls are closing in on me and every free moment I want to run, ride and discover. It doesn’t matter where, as long as it is outside of the usual. Sadly, corona has limited access to most far away places. That’s where, for now, my drifting thoughts and dreams take over. It’s hard to explain. Closing my eyes while listening to music, I fly like the wind across barren landscapes, I slither through valleys like a river in spring, I bump into clouds, sway with the grass and I observe. Budding yellow flowers, purple heather, crackled bark of a tree and swirling freedom. My heart starts racing, I feel like a prisoner of society and melancholy takes over. Suddenly I start questioning everything in this world and nothing make sense anymore. I know what I want and I know where I am going, but patience isn’t my strong point. How easy would it be to ride off and disappear without looking back?
Working from home has the great advantage of getting extra free hours in a day, but apparently I am greedy. The list of things I would like to do in my spare time is endless. Design a website, become a freelance writer, improve my photo editing skills, write a book, study to become a veterinarian, learn how to film and edit videos, expand my blog, start trail running, grow our Instagram, plan our round-the-world motorbike trip, better my off-road riding skills, read more books and improve my knowledge on how to work on motorbikes. The blessing and curse of this age, all the knowledge to learn something new and develop new skills is at our fingertips, we just need to focus and decide what is worth our time.
Everything is possible, but if it where easy, everyone would be doing it.
