Hi everyone, I’m going to be moving flat in the next few weeks - I decided that living with three other people (two of whom are key workers and thus going into work) during a pandemic was too high risk for me, and that by living on my own I could safely bubble up with my partners (who I was already seeing. Carefully, but not remotely socially distanced).
I feel a connection in this with a dilemma I've been tinkering with for the last while. I developed lots of social inner scripts about what responsible working life looked like over the past dozen or so years, but it's become increasingly clear that they only hold true for certain values. What I actually need to do to look after my mental health around work looks outright indulgent, yet the standard scripts ultimately don't work. It's definitely been useful for me to recognise that this is a conflict between being and appearing responsible.
I feel a connection in this with a dilemma I've been tinkering with for the last while. I developed lots of social inner scripts about what responsible working life looked like over the past dozen or so years, but it's become increasingly clear that they only hold true for certain values. What I actually need to do to look after my mental health around work looks outright indulgent, yet the standard scripts ultimately don't work. It's definitely been useful for me to recognise that this is a conflict between being and appearing responsible.