Hello, this is my boring little life. Entry 1: Work
The feeling I have when I walk to work every morning is that of a sore ache in the pit of my stomach. It is as If I was being guided from my front door to the pharamacy where I work by a long length of barbed wire that passes through my gut.
Every morning starts pretty much the same. Before I even open my eyes I'm in pain. The alarm sends an electric shock through my whole body. This is followed by that familiar burning ache that will stay with me for most of the morning.
Everyday that is boring, tedious and repetitive be it school collage, work, a day off with nothing to do seems forever. Every time I check the clock I'm lucky if ten minutes has gone by, or if I'm at home it's all over before I realise I'm free.
It's these days- being so unremarkable- that blur together; one day being the same as any other. Any single event you remember is simply adrift in a long past of nothingness. It could have happened today or a month ago, it's all the same.
Thus results an odd phenomenon. The longer time seems to go by the time the shorter that space of time appears in recollection.
I have no idea, instinctivly how long I've been working, just that it feels a long time; almost indefinitley, and yet I have nothing to recall of most of it. Only by counting the days and recalling events previous to my work, or noteworthy events seperate from work, do I mange to create a mental time scale.
An hour or two at work sends me Into a catatonic, robatic state in which I lose al sense of personality and emotion. I thus live off pure primitve survival instinct. I don't care - I work to get paid and that's all. I have a complete lack of professional enthusiasum and a negative attitude that I'm trying to keep at bay least I end up actually losing my job.
Thinking about work at the end of the weekend is particularly horrible, it brings on that same old curse of nausea and anxiety as I realise that in but a few short hours I will once again be called upon to become a robot for the better part of the day-existing in a cold void or perpetual numbness.
That's all for now, don't worry my pets there is light at the end of the smog choked tunnel but of that I will talk in the next entry.
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