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Interruption
A chapter of a yet to be published book, “Never Say Never — When a Dad Stays Home”
Your life isn’t yours when you are at home.
Even if you think that theoretically you will have the whole day to yourself, it rarely happens.
You can be interrupted physically, by visitors, or by notifications from the ‘interruptoverse’ as I like to call it.
By the time you finish fighting for your space, your quiet time, you’ve frightened away your muse.
Everyone says “Ah, you have so much time on your hands”. Which is true, since you are your own master.
But you are often your own worst enemy.
You get inside your own mind.
All the great intentions of the night before can dissolve in front of your eyes the moment you sit down on the couch in the morning. When you want to get up you feel like a thousand tonnes.
Suddenly you start to feed yourself excuses. I’m going to get interrupted anyway, so best do something easy, something mind-numbing and fun, like watching YouTube or saying you’ll just have your breakfast first, because otherwise how will you focus when your belly…
