I break for Christmas/New Year on at midday, then have a few weeks of annual leave. Yesterday, I booked a client final report presentation meeting for late January. That’s almost a month and simultanelously just 3½ days of work away.
My brain broke trying to hold two very different timeframes together. And it’s worse: if the 3½ days was a normal Monday to Thursday I’d be fine with plenty of time, but because in that short period I’m also mentally fitting Christmas/New Year/leave it’s very compressed and overcrowded.
Explains the sudden onset of a sore throat yesterday afternoon as my body reacted (cleared by the time I left for home).
The end of a year always has us thinking “My, that went quick” and I have always considered it part of growing old as each year is a smaller percentage of our life. My years are ⅕ the percentage of time they were when I was 10. Science Alert’s article There’s a Scientific Reason December ‘Arrives Sooner’ Every Year says the reason is that with age comes routine and similar activities across the year make each the same and we feel that as shorter. It’s the variability of life that gives us more time. Something to ponder into planning 2026.