[OPINION] ‘Productivity’ is still a myth, even after this pandemic is over

'[W]hat I fear is that when the world starts opening up again, people will believe that they no longer have an excuse to rest or space out anymore.' Opinion RapplerBlogs

'[W]hat I fear is that when the world starts opening up again, people will believe that they no longer have an excuse to rest or space out anymore'

It’s advice I agree with and embrace; people are starving and dying in droves, and it honestly means nothing whether you got a lot of work done or made a sourdough ube cheese dalgona basque sushi bake, or didn’t. Yes, you can be productive if you want to be, but you shouldn’t feel bad at all if you’d rather stream a show, or take a nap, or read a book.

The precariousness and unpredictability of our lives will remain unchanged. Pandemic or not, our time will always be valuable – and not in the way we were taught to believe. It is valuable not because it allows us to make more output, but precisely the opposite: because it gives us the opportunity to just enjoy the world while we still can, instead of fulfilling the bizarre, man-made condition that only busy lives with concrete products are worth anything.

It’s a bit macabre, but I try to use a deathbed scenario when I’m deciding whether something is worth doing or not. I imagine that I’m moments away from croaking, thinking back on how I lived my life, and if the thing I’m planning to do at present is something that my future dying self would think was a waste of precious time, then I’d at least think twice about doing it.

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