{"id":23233,"date":"2024-09-22T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:27:58","slug":"health-wellbeing-goink-mit-der-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23233","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH & WELLBEiNG: Goink Mit Der Fl\u00f6w?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Lisbon Earthquake, 1775.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

S\u2019funny, how things work out. Some pretty awful shit has happened in my life, particularly in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, viewed from the right perspective, even the bad stuff can (possibly?) be \u2018made good\u2019. Not in and of itself. But dint of the overall picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d been wanting to stop teaching for years. And now I have. The way my teaching career ended was most emphatically not<\/em> the way I wanted it to. But the overall outcome, in part at least, was<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a whole other lesser level, yet equally fundamental – pardon the pun – the recent breaking of our toilet, by a pal\/regular guest\u2026 (further poor punning alert), well\u2026 that didn\u2019t pan out as we\u2019d wanted it to, either. But in the end; we\u2019d long needed<\/em> a new toilet. Now we have<\/em> one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mention these two things, one that very nearly destroyed my whole life, and another that, whilst much more mundane, was still of great importance, to bring in a third topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work and health, right now<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we took our recent break, a short while back, I could often be heard saying – to anyone who\u2019d listen – that whilst one week was very nice, what I really needed was at least six months time out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, once again, I\u2019m being forced to do what I both want and need to do, not out of choice, but circumstance. On returning from our hols I couldn\u2019t work. My driving license had expired. That lead to the one week off expanding to three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, having only just resumed work, I\u2019ve come down with a cold, flu, or something. Today, Sunday, if I manage to summon the energy to read for half an hour, it knocks me out completely, such that I then sleep an hour or so!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I certainly won\u2019t make my minimum \u00a3300 a week, in this, my first week back at work. Indeed, I\u2019ll be lucky if I make \u00a3200. But I\u2019m being forced to take time off work just to survive<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s as if mind, body, even the goddamn indifferent universe, are conspiring to force my hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not quite there yet – or mayhap I am? – with Voltaire\u2019s Pangloss: \u2018all being created for an end, all is necessarily for the best end.\u2019 But I guess I\u2019m fishing in the same lake?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is Optimism?\u201d asked Cacambo
\u2018Alas!\u2019 said Candide, \u2018it is the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.\u2019 And he wept\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I guess I\u2019m trying pull something from the fire? I\u2019ve been to Hell, in gasoline pants (thanks, Tom), and I\u2019m not dead yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S\u2019funny, how things work out. Some pretty awful shit has happened in my life, particularly in the last couple of years. But, viewed from the right perspective, even the bad stuff can (possibly?) be \u2018made good\u2019. Not in and of itself. But dint of the overall picture. I\u2019d been wanting to stop teaching for years. … <\/p>\n

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