as someone as struggling with habit building and sustenance, as well as currently part-timing (which somehow feels like two-timing) andor freelancing, I feel every bit of this newsletter with every fibre of my being. Especially the bit about how the ordinariness of living is often not accounted for in these productivity guides. Someone I once met provided a scientific theory to the popular stereotype that brawny people are dumb - carbohydrates are brain food, and so because they starve themselves of carbs, the brain slows down and sometimes atrophies. I am BA English, just like you, and have no way to confirm or deny it, but it kinda made sense to me.
It makes me wonder about (highly) productive people- are they productive because they lack humanity and human foibles like doomscrolling or an unscheduled catch up with fam or friends via text or call? But aren't those the things that make live worth living? The sambol/achar to our heaped ass plate of very bland, very under seasoned rice?
Just random thoughts tossing around an empty head on a Saturday morning.
You keep writing girl. Some of us are reading between our joint pains.
Dear Seni,
as someone as struggling with habit building and sustenance, as well as currently part-timing (which somehow feels like two-timing) andor freelancing, I feel every bit of this newsletter with every fibre of my being. Especially the bit about how the ordinariness of living is often not accounted for in these productivity guides. Someone I once met provided a scientific theory to the popular stereotype that brawny people are dumb - carbohydrates are brain food, and so because they starve themselves of carbs, the brain slows down and sometimes atrophies. I am BA English, just like you, and have no way to confirm or deny it, but it kinda made sense to me.
It makes me wonder about (highly) productive people- are they productive because they lack humanity and human foibles like doomscrolling or an unscheduled catch up with fam or friends via text or call? But aren't those the things that make live worth living? The sambol/achar to our heaped ass plate of very bland, very under seasoned rice?
Just random thoughts tossing around an empty head on a Saturday morning.
You keep writing girl. Some of us are reading between our joint pains.
Mog assundi,
Kevin
My sweetest Kevin 🩷 I'm going to start off by saying that I had never once to stopped think of part-timing as two-timing, haha! And thank you for sharing all of your thoughts with me - it's always good to know that in these cases that we are not alone and there are others like us out there who feel and think about things in the same way. Thank you as always for reading, much love to you 🌻