Day 28 - Micro-Death

Forward planning dates, reviewing previous dates, forecasting for future dates. Dates. Look at the past dates. What dates are we aiming for? Which date will we look at when we approach the next date? Time is staring you in the face. Counting down the days forever in a a constant visual reminder evidencing of how long life is. The mortality of work.

Unsurprisingly I currently find myself sitting in front of a forecasting spreadsheet plan which contains a multitude of dates. Numbers, letters and symbols, neatly arranged in perfectly symmetrical little rectangles. Infinite rectangles. Tabs. Buttons. Filters. The numbers, letters, symbols, tabs, buttons, filters and rectangles are mocking my impermanence, taunting me with micro-aggressions and micro-cells and micro-macro-support and micro-charts and micro-soft and micro-entity-accounts-support and micro-enable and micro-operations-support-contact-number. I get it Microsoft. I'm going to die.

You're not even infinite, rectangles. That's circles. Who's laughing now? Circles will outlast us all. The last thing standing. Or rolling. The future is an vast emptiness occupied only by circles. It seems I have gone mad.

This is what work does to you. They preach mental wellbeing for their tick-box exercises but really their main motivation is to subtly provide incessant reminders of death through use of a range of shapes and symbols, which over a prolonged period of time subliminally make you subservient to the supremacy of circles. 

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