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Have A Break
Have you for once sat at another person’s desk in your office?
How did it feel?
Sometimes when you think you need a break, it would be good for you to try sitting at your colleague’s desk instead of at your own for a change. It is kind of relaxing. Although the desk and shelves may be filled with files and documents just like your desk but these are not your tasks or your burdens. You can just sit there and not be burdened by your surroundings but someone else’s.
In fact you might even notice an interesting thing or two at your colleague’s desk. It could be a photograph or a drawing, anything that might just happen to attract your attention. In short, you are only attracted by what fascinates you but not what will burden you.
Somebody Else’s Office
Recall those days when you were a child and your father brought you to his office during the weekend when the office was vacant. It was like a playground and not a place of work to you. What amazed you could have been the little stationeries on the tables such as staplers, paper clips and yes, the calculator. Yes, during those days when calculators were still amazing little toys before there were handheld game devices like Nintendo or Game Boy.
Another thing in the office could be a little space like a pantry where there might be a water dispenser. The state of mind when you enter an office not having your mind filled with work and obligation but you merely look for things for relaxation, make all the difference.
It is still the same when you pay a visit to a friend at his/her office. You will be looking for things like the sceneries when you look out of the windows, interesting photographs and pictures on the desks/walls and how the pantries are like at your friend’s office. You would not be thinking of work after all those works are not your problems.
Somebody Else’s Baby
It is also like looking at another person’s baby and how cute the baby is to play with. The baby is just an object of cuteness and fun but to the parents, it is a great burden to bear. Having countless sleepless nights with the baby crying. Attending to the baby’s every needs and wants. Twenty over years of financial commitment in bringing up the child. Other people can attend to their baby’s problems but I just simply have fun with their babies.
People who moved from one job to another may momentarily have this mind set because a new office has not become his personal problem yet until after a little while when reality sets in. It will eventually become just another office, another place where demands and expectations are placed on him/her. Then again it is another office, another place that reminds him/her of work.
Somebody Else’s Problem
Sitting at another person’s work desk is something like an out of body experience, a moment of bliss where other people’s problems are not your problems, where your problems are somewhere else. They are not with me at the moment. Not my problem. I am just enjoying myself, for the moment. Eventually I have to return to my own desk, return to my own problems.
For the moment, I am just sitting at somebody else’s desk and I think I just want to capture that thought in my mind at this moment.
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