“No no no, please don’t. That can ‘t be true. I ‘ ve only just fallen asleep. Shit. Fuck the good intentions, I’ll just set the alarm clock half an hour earlier now. It ‘s excessive to get up so early anyway.” Zzzzzzzzzzzz…
These were my first thoughts, when I woke up on Thursday morning after my almost three-week summer holiday was woken up by my mobile phone alarm clock.
Why am I writing this?
This may sound familiar to you. We ‘ ve just been on holiday, then the day before the first day at work day of work, a dull feeling starts to build up in my body. It reminds me a bit of a dark premonition you had, when you were doing a maths test and somehow the results were so crooked and all the others always came up with round , maybe even funny numbers , like liquor store numbers . It was this disgusting feeling that something negative was going to happen .
I have this feeling very often, when I have to go back to work after a long holiday. I don’t know exactly where it comes from. Maybe from previous jobs where the first few days were really unpleasant. There’ s not really any reason for that at the moment. But this bad feeling is there.
I talked about it the day before. You ‘re often not alone in this , especially during the holiday season.” A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved ” This really does apply to me.
My first thoughts in the morning were still terrible. I also just felt tired and my limbs ached, as if I had been run over by a tractor.
After I followed my actual resolution – (I don’t argue with myself, I just go through with it) – it slowly got better. The shower in the morning helped a little. The coffee a tiny bit. Cycling to the office also improved my mood a little. I was the first one in the office. Unfortunately, that didn’t help at all. It was only when my lovely colleague Faiza turned up that things got great. We laughed, told each other stories from our respective holidays, wonderful. Then very soon I had a coaching session with a very dear customer. That was the crowning glory, all the negative feelings were blown away. And now it’s going well.
Conclusion: I think it ‘ s quite normal that the transition from holiday to work is not one of pure joy. No matter what you do. If it feels good again after a while, everything is okay and I for one am very grateful.
To everyone out there who is now starting again. Hey, we ‘re all human. You ‘ll be fine … and if not, you ‘re already on the right webpage….
