Being free gives a feeling of absolute peace, I love the situation I'm in now because I have no ties... well not exactly like that, but it is something like that.

The feeling of not being tied to a schedule is really very satisfying. All my life I was coming and going according to my watch, I was coming and going from one place to another always looking at the clock. You could say that I myself became a slave to my time.

This has occurred to me after reading a post made by friend @jane, it made me think back to the times when I was encarcerated by myself.

I had a wristwatch, I had an alarm clock, I had a watch in the car and all the time I was calculating on doing the tasks I had to do for the day.

I also kept my schedule because being a professional dependent on how I acquired my financial resources I also had to set a schedule.

But now, having everything in perspective, seeing everything in an agenda where even the smallest details were written, that my dear friends, that is called slavery. I was a slave to my own purposes for many years.

That made me get the tasks done on time, the scheduled appointments were met, the tasks I did, no matter how small, I always managed to accomplish.

But that did not bring me happiness. I managed to develop a personality that was far from pleasant, because of the stressful pace I was under everyone realized that I was always limited by time.

But being an organized woman brought me satisfaction for what I had achieved, but at the same time it caused an accumulation of stress that I could not see at the time.

Over the years I came to realize what happened, but my life had already passed. It all happened in far more years than I could realize.

The life of an independent woman brings satisfactions but in time you manage to see that they were achievements that did not give me the sense of fulfillment that I should feel.

I have achieved many things in life. They were systematic but when I should have enjoyed my sense of well being I was already plotting the next achievement and with a new agenda on the way.

Today I no longer carry an agenda. I lost my watch, I no longer wear my watch on my wrist, my alarm clock I stopped working and, in fact, I don't even know where it is. I no longer wake up to the alarm on my phone, because I no longer set the time to tell me anything.

I led a life where I ran a lot. Although I must say that I did enjoy it, because I also put the needed hours to enjoy life. I had prepared some time to walk, to visit friends, parties, everything was scheduled. 

I can't complain or say that I didn’t travel, enjoy or walk a lot in my whole life, but just now that I am still working as an independent woman and I don't keep the agenda I can say that I enjoy much more the pleasures of life.

I wake up in the mornings without rushing, without looking at the clock because I overslept or something. I go to the bathroom and then to make my long-awaited morning coffee. Then I turn on my laptop, if the internet connection helps I can start reading on read.cash and then noise.cash and then I move on to the others.

If there is no connection I leave it and get ready to arrange my things to open the office and start working with my patients.

At the same time, if I feel like it, I make my breakfast. If not, I leave it for later.

Sometimes patients don't come early or don't come at all. I have more free time to dedicate to myself.

After my breakfast and if there are no patients yet, I might write, post or go to my garden to do some gardening. Anything is fine.

Everything can be done at any time except if it rains... then I can't start gardening until it stops raining.

By now it's already noon. My son is about to wake up and then he joins me to make lunch together, most of the time he makes coffee for both of us.

After my lunch I must continue with writing, reading or gardening. Any of these are always good to do, by now the office is closed and I am only engaged in cooking, gardening or writing.

This is the case almost every day. Since I am in isolation because of the pandemic my life is simple and rewarding. I am not tied to rigid schedules and still accomplish all my tasks.

It’s good to not feel like a slave to activities. It’s good to feel free every day, without ties, without rigid schedules, without predetermined obligations and live the moment to the fullest. With satisfaction in everything you do day by day.

I fervently hope that isolation will end at some point in my life. I cannot complain or say that my life from this confinement has not been comforting. I have been filled with life and felt free in times of pandemic.

Perhaps the best times are when I am with my plants. Sowing, or transplanting or harvesting, or maybe it’s when I see my patients and I manage to make a diagnosis of the pathologies that overwhelmed them, or it could be when I dedicate myself to the kitchen and enjoy the company of my son when I bake a cake or when I enjoy the rich chocolate in rainy weather.

I really don't know which moment gives me the most pleasure but they are all relaxing and satisfying and above all far from the slavery of an agenda and a schedule.

Thank you my dear readers, I hope that if you have not yet found tranquility in the tasks you perform this will serve as an encouragement to find it or to look for it.

Thank you for sharing with me this journey to tranquility in my life, and thank you @jane for making me think a little more about my freedom.

I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela.