The Correction: Entry 01.5

Someone asked me today what I do for fun.

I paused longer than I should have. Long enough for it to be awkward. And in that pause I went through a mental list — DJing, the podcast, the company, writing — before I realised that every single thing I listed was also work.

Fun and work have become the same thing for me. I don’t know when that happened. Actually, I think I do know. I think it happened so gradually that I just never noticed it becoming a problem.

The question stayed with me all day. Not in a heavy way. More like a pebble in a shoe — not enough to stop you walking, just enough to keep reminding you it’s there.

I’m not sure I know how to have fun that isn’t useful. That isn’t building something. That isn’t moving something forward. Even this — writing about it — is technically content.

I’m not sure what to do with that yet. But I’m sitting with it.

More on Monday.