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Withdrawal Symptoms !


I went off on the long weekend feeling happy. On Monday morning when I started my office computer, it was so exceptionally slow that I had to ask our System Administrator to take a look. While sorting out that problem, he insisted that we upgrade my system. Thereafter began a long and tedious journey, which, by initial estimates, was to complete in a couple of hours, but turned itself into an ordeal along the way and finally ended this evening, taking a record-breaking three working days to get my system upgraded, all software reinstalled and brought into working condition. Phew ! And ‘Phew !’ again…what a longwinded sentence :)


The whole time I vacillated from euphoria of getting to sit on the extremely comfortable couch in the reception without fearing reprimand to depression due to withdrawal symptoms from lack of my daily dose of computer usage :)


Look at the irony ! The long ‘weekend’ (of three days) was full of work. We cleaned up the house …and I mean really cleaned up. We are now living in a picture-book neat home and keeping it neat too ! The first three days of the ‘work’ week were spent twiddling my thumbs, feeling frustrated for lack of work to do, chatting with colleagues, entering and re-entering the password to my machine about a thousand times, generally doing nothing.


All my work is done using my computer. When I was not able to work, I literally suffered from withdrawal symptoms. I got depressed and harassed the System Administrator to simply forget about the upgrade and give me back my old system as it was. I felt tired in the evenings, without doing one bit of work during the day. I kept nagging colleagues that I couldn’t do anything since my machine was being upgraded and later I would have a pile of leftover stuff to finish. I didn’t know that this was the level of my dependency on work !


Now that I am back at my machine, furiously typing away, I am much at peace ! I am, once again, assured of my daily dose of work and perhaps some overdose for a couple of days due the ones I missed.


No more withdrawal symptoms ! :)

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