{"id":6206,"date":"2020-06-25T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2020-06-26T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:45:21","slug":"work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2020\/06\/25\/work-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Work From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>Live as though today is your last day.<\/p><cite>Marcus Aurelius<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignwide wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Andrew &amp; Veda - Alive\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WSrKO97uNnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Andrew &amp; Veda &#8211; Alive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today morning, at 8:00AM, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=rocks.tommylee.apps.dailystoicism&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">The Stoic<\/a><\/strong>, an android application in my phone duly notified me of a quote, &#8220;Live as though today is your last day&#8221;, and that too in the right moment when I needed it the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;ve heard of a paraphrased version of the same from Steve in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc\" target=\"_blank\">t<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc\" target=\"_blank\">his vide<\/a>o<\/span> who himself lost his life to a rare pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question remains. Why did i need to acknowledge and account for and absorb this beautiful maxim by Aurelius?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, like many of us, i had lost touch with the confinements as well as the fragility of life at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, like many of us, i had forgotten to appreciate life while contemplating death at the same while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, like many of us, I had lost my network connection with <strong>life<\/strong>&#8216;s bliss and the unmatched freedom for the web of unending, ever-expanding, forever-exploding  work-work-and-more work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, like many of us, I was more and more exhausted and more and more sleepless and more and more neurotic and more and more restless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Without-a-shred of doubt, <strong>Work From Home<\/strong> has had an egregious impact on my mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For, in the last one week alone; the only things I actually remember are &#8212; all the shit pile of work, and responsibilities and decisions I&#8217;ve had to pull and on deliverables I&#8217;ve had to meet and meeting and justification fucker-ies, and problem solving, and the beautiful rain and <strong>chess<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, I needed to recharge. Re-wind. Retrospect. Rejoice and rejuvenate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, sure, re-live. Re-purpose.&nbsp;<strong>Rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>p.s. the why I don&#8217;t give a flying fuck about my past; the same why I have no regrets for my past, is because I&#8217;ve come to realize that life&#8217;s theatre and all the drama that goes inside this weird framework, only cares and knows about moving forward, moving strong, and moving on and on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>p.p.s. oh! yeah, and, I almost forgot to tell you that &#8212; for an experimentation purpose, all the things I had en-acted today on June the 25th 2020, was tethered around &#8212;  living as though today matter of fact,<strong> was.my.last<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goodnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Live as though today is your last day. Marcus Aurelius Today morning, at 8:00AM, The Stoic, an android application in my phone duly notified me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2020\/06\/25\/work-from-home\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work From Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}