Whenever I start work, my brain and my body have this weird chemistry with each other. I’ve analysed how this works and worst part is I can’t control this but just analyse when it happens.
When I start work for the day, my body is super focused, wants to pin down all points that I want to strike off by the end of the day, but the brain is still lousy and grumpy like it just got off the morning alarm.
Slowly around 1 hour past the work start, my body is still active and yelling at my brain to act faster, but my brain wouldn’t mind the yell, just having its tea and trying to pick its ass off and get to work. By the time it’s 12pm, my body is at 60% and damn my brain is now fully charged and super ready, yelling at the body “Arrgh! Cmon you, let’s get this started, I’m ready!”
And then we start the day!!! Wohoo! For the next one hour, I’m just brimming with ideas, what to do, what not to do, why this, when that, how much, why not!
And we start… But lunch time sets in. I gotta make peace with the stomach, else I’m gonna regret big time Just after the lunch, the lazy half hour enters,
But post this, brain-body chemistry is super charged up. Is this some weird pattern that I’m experiencing or is it with everyone?
My body looking at my brain at 9AM
I was working from home today. The patterns change when I’m remote working. If it’s full time wfh, it’s fine, but if rarely, oh boy, I got distractions to tackle. I was just pulling myself together and trying to replicate the office pattern, but could feel the energy plummeting around 11-ish.
There’s some construction happening, not too loud just some minor drilling works.
I generally have this habit of opening all windows, lowering my fan, move curtains to bring in more light into the room. Just making it more natural because I’ve found that too much silence is disturbing, so why not just allow some chattering from the real world!
The best part of working from home is when I’m gradually gaining focus, my energy getting channelised to the right work, tasks getting under my control. Oh! It’s so satisfying because it's happening at home and it’s not the actual “work environment” (though I used to work from home full time even before covid times, now it’s different)
This happened to me today. I could hear some chatters from the nearby construction site, the supervisor calling out the workers for their mid morning tea! Workers calling out each other “Yov vaayaa! Tea vandhuduchu”! Could hear them passing some comments, petty witty jokes.
But, when that time was over and workers dispersing to their allocated domains and drilling sound slowly takes over, and while all works resume, one guy shouted out: “Yappa, paatta on pannu”
That’s when melody starts to take over, dimming all machine sounds, dominating the air, elevating the energy, Ilayaraja rules the situation.
On one end I’m working on designing a site and on the other end workers are working on the construction site, but the pain dissolves while the air becomes sweeter with the speaker going… “Kodiyile… malliga poo… manakuthe maane!”
Couldn’t be more heavenly! Paa! Raaja Raaja thaan ya!
