I’ve been on sabbatical this June. I feel grateful for this opportunity. It helped me rediscover myself that I lost track of over the past few years.
Usually, when I take some time off, it’s because of travel, be it for a fun vacation, for some unfortunate family emergency, or for some other reason. I never got to take a solid chunk of time-off and do nothing. This time, I did exactly that.
Before the sabbatical, I planned out a ton of things to do during. I wanted to pick up on new technologies, pick up new hobbies, build new projects (I even sketched everything out), and get ripped.
As I got close to the timeframe, I remembered what was more important to me and dropped all of my ideas and stuck to my original plan of doing nothing. It was hard, initially. But, I was able to do it.
I just wanted to do what I used to do – hang out at random coffee shops and read up on random things. I did just that. I had a great time doing that.
During the course of this month, I’ve significantly lowered my consumption of social media. I deleted a ton of apps from my phone. I pruned my desk, and upgraded some of my everyday-use gear.
I didn’t want to keep in touch with anyone during this time and didn’t bother to update any one of what I was up to. I didn’t care much about what I ate. I worked out of various coffee shops and coffeeshop hopped on a regular basis.
That’s it. That’s all I did. It was definitely not bad at all.
Thank you, Adobe.
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