Balance vs Boundaries
It’s been roughly four months since I started working and in my perpetual search to have the perfect work-life balance, I realised that I had discovered something new. Let’s call it work-life boundaries wherein we do not let our work commitments, emails and everything in between flow into the time reserved for everything else that we define as our life. Now how is this exactly different from having a work-life balance? See, balancing is an act that requires us to have a fairly equal distribution of time required and commitments on both ends of the scale. But like it or not, most of us nine-to-fivers tend to have a majority of our day and brain space perpetually occupied by our work. And let me not even begin to describe the ridiculousness that is the work hours of people in the healthcare, tech and hospitality sectors. There is effectively no balance as is. Does that mean there is no solution to the treadmill we run every day between work and life? No! And this is why I wanted to t...