Friday, September 15, 2006
Slowly, Slowly
A month ago I was planning all the things I'd start doing in September. I wasn't over-ambitious, it's just that I seemed to be making steady progress.
Now, I never planned to rush my return to work and other activities. Running my own business, it would be very tempting to do so. But one of my favourite books is 'In Praise Of Slowness' by Carl Honore, and I tend to follow that philosophy. Prior to my operation, I'd put a line through six months and told myself, as well as my colleagues and clients, that if I was back to work earlier than that would be a bonus. I wanted to give my body as much time as it needed to heal.
However, as I came to the end of my first three months recuperation, progress seemed to be good. Thankfully bladder control was heaps better, and I was going out for regular walks and building up on light exercise.
I made a couple of calls to work friends and colleagues to see how they were going. I was astonished at how each time I did this I would feel absolutely exhausted afterwards. I set myself a target of reading up on some work projects and writing an article. It didn't happen. Each time I started I got far too tired. And that's the way it's continued. September has definitely been the month of going slow.
So I'm certainly glad that I didn't put myself under any pressure with timelines for getting back to work. It is definitely a case of slowly, slowly.
# posted by Jurek Leon @ 1:26 pm 
