Out of my mind. Back in 5 minutes

I thought i’d not show up today.

You know, being able to be a no-show is an art in itself and I’d love to learn more. Because I have the opposite problem. I’m an “always show”

• I could never bring myself to miss a day of school. (I hadn't missed a day of school from 6th grade all the way to the 12th.)

• I show up to uni almost every day even if I absolutely don’t have to be. (Friends have a name for it now- the opposite of “chucking a sickie” is “chucking a Shivani”)

• I will almost never miss work

Now, showing up is a really good thing. Most of the time.
Sometimes, it can drive you a little bit up the wall. Like when you could fall into the trap of showing up just to be busy. Here, the need to show up is driven need to not be bored. And before you know it, you’re in a fix, juggling ten thousand completely different things at the same time. That’s a problem.

It might be worth learning from a thing or too from the no-shows. They seem to be okay with not being busy. They seem to know how to say -

“Hey, I’m out of my mind, I’ll be back in 5”

Because there are no brownie points for just being busy.