There are so many thoughts on past office(s) which I have on my mind, which I am yet to write. Apart from the stress of workplace, ongoing and return traffic there was a peculiar thing which comes to my mind, which made me sick or stressed or both, not really sure.
It took a huge effort to figure out what it was and in reality it turns out, it is a bit more serious and I should not chance upon such stunts in the very near future.
I started to work at 7 am in the morning and then started for home by 4PM. It took me around two hours to reach home or may be more many times and sometimes less may be by 20 mins. Then I used to go to gym for exercise and come back home by 9 15PM odd.
Then food and sleep. Somewhere amidst this daily schedule, I forgot to drink sufficient water. I did need more water due to the exercise but I completely ignored the water need in the end falling sick, getting stressed, feeling stiff, cramped most of the times.
I can feel the effect of having less water in your body, the feeling of being dehydrated. There were few reasons which I feel were the driving force behind me drinking less water.
- Sitting in an air conditioned environment I was always conscious about how many times I go to pee. I felt rather uncomfortable or embarrassed at the thought of peeing three times between 8am - 12 noon. The reason was simple, the air conditioner was simply malfunctioning, temperature fluctuated between 21 degrees to 22 degrees centigrade.
- I drank tea or milk during the morning schedule of my office which made me drink lesser water, the fear of visits to loo to pee looming more.
- Shuttle commute from work took two hours and there was no stop over to pee, or rather it was embarrassing to stop to pee.
- Post dinner. - Post dinner once again, I was in a hurry to sleep reason being I had to wake up at 5 am, for next day's work.
There was a time frame from the time I came back from office to the time I went to gym, I could have drunk water, but nope, I drank tea, a little water and rested. Also too much water would lead to bloating restricting me from running on treadmill.
All the while I have only exercises. The last 3-5 months have led to severe degradation of my lifestyle, induced loads of stress. Not drinking much water was just one dimension. On the work front I still have loads of cribbing which I plan to undo, piece by piece, studying in detail every aspect of my own self, thus in the process, which I sincerely hope, unloading years and years of accumulated stress, anger and guilt.
Cheers,
PS - I have to read and re-read my own writing to ensure edits which are necessary, which currently I do not have time to. My laptop is slow plus, I get distracted quite a bit.
