#oneaday Day 1122: Sleep is for the weak, I am weak

I'm knackered. It's been a busy week! Had to go in to the actual day job office on Tuesday, which meant staying overnight in a hotel on Monday night and driving back home on Tuesday evening. In both directions, it was absolutely pouring with rain, dark and miserable, though mercifully not too heavy on the traffic. It has left me absolutely exhausted for the rest of the week, however!

Thankfully, I'm ploughing through all the Stuff I Have To Do at a good rate and everything will be fine, but I am definitely looking forward to tomorrow evening, when I'll just be able to flop down, go "right, that's that for another week" and relax for a bit. I intend for Saturday to primarily be filled with Atelier Sophie 2 and moving as little as possible. I guess technically that still counts as "work" but I actually want to play Atelier Sophie 2 — it's real good — so I'm more than happy to spend my Saturday doing that!

I think my exhaustion in this case stems from the fact that it is, to say the least, a somewhat turbulent situation in the world right now. And it feels like we've been limping from one instance of "turbulence" to another over the past few years — and that's without even taking the entire COVID thing into account.

I'm sure if I looked back at recent history I'd probably find that human existence has just been one string of "turbulent times" after another, but that doesn't really make me feel any better. Something about the present conflict feels curiously more… ever-present and relevant than other things that have been going on. I think it's perhaps because unlike a lot of other instances like this around the world, people are actually taking action this time around.

I mean, whether or not you think, say, GOG.com not selling games to Russians any more is an effective response to a humanitarian crisis is a matter of opinion and debate, I'm sure, but it does feel like people are curiously "united" in condemning the situation in Ukraine. Oddly, though, that's one of the things that makes it feel all the more exhausting; all the more real, I guess.

I wonder if humanity will know proper peace at some point? It honestly feels like a far-off, fanciful dream these days, whatever sci-fi might have tried to tell us in the past.