BOREDOM - An unexpected gift

For the first time in a long while COVID has surpassed the devil for being the blamed subject for all the misfortunes of our lives. Like others I too resent COVID for taking me out of my driver seat and taking me on this bumpy road. I am not the type to seek joy ride and the journey was not what I would have signed up for. 

Here I am entering 2022 with warranted two weeks off to let the steam out of 2021. It was the kind of rest I wanted, to be at home with few occasions to celebrate Christmas and new year with family and close friends. First day of work inevitably came but my soul seem to have lost the spark that helped me endure tireless hours without any break to attend to my need for food, hydration nor urination. 

Dentistry is like a lover who has lost the romance with her relentless, demanding partner who provided sense of significance by feeding my need to be needed. COVID Omnicron came isolated me into a prison, and ironically freed me from the tyranny of my career. In the space of constraint from what occupied most of my waking hours, I found my self the gift COVID has left me at my door step. In the space of unscheduled time, I have unwrapped boredom, and got reacquainted with my long lost friend. 

In the space of boredom I have rediscovered my inner world that has been starved of exchange of dialogue between reading books and writing. 

this world leave me again once the world of busyness reignites, once COVID has done its duty? Some were gifted with relation of home, change of career, and finding a new partner. Will I find relocation of my soul and find settlement in this new inner world?