An excellent generalisation of Parkinson’s Law, as taken from Wiki, is as follows:
The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource.
The law applies to time, money and pretty much any other unlimited resource in the world. The amount of work always expands to fill up the available free time. The list of expenses always add up to leave you penniless by the next pay day.
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My life’s becoming more aimless these days. I’m contented lying in bed watching yet another episode of simpsons/csi/house/jdorama on my laptop before drifting off to dreamsville.
The list of to-dos remain as long as ever while I can’t seem to muster up any energy or resolve to achieve any of them. What has a year of work done to me? Ironically, ambition has been drained out of me at a time when I need it most. I miss school. I miss the hours of free time spent daydreaming of a better future. Now, I spend my free time immersed in tv shows instead because I don’t want to admit to myself that the rest of my life might be just this. Nothing fancy. Nothing exciting. Everything routine and mundane.
I don’t want to give in without a fight but the fight’s gone out of me.
