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22 Stages Of Going Back To Work After A Break

Being an adult is the worst.

1. Your alarm goes off and you have no idea what's happening and why anything could be so loud so early in the morning.

2. So you snooze for as long as you can before dragging yourself out of bed despite feeling like you need ten years more sleep.

3. As you get ready for work you regret every single decision that ever led you to being an adult who has to do things.

4. You drink your first coffee like it's an elixir of the gods, but it just isn't enough to get you going.

5. When people at work ask you how your holiday was, you find it hard not to get sad while reminiscing about the good times.

6. And you ask people what they got up to, even though you don't really care and you're busy thinking about all those episodes of Black Mirror you binge-watched yesterday.

7. You open your email inbox and immediately wish you'd stayed home.

8. You basically just delete everything and hope that nothing was important.

9. You find it really hard to focus on anything for more than 20 minutes.

10. No matter how hard you try to pay attention, you have no idea what happened in your morning meeting.

11. Basically your whole morning is a blur and you definitely don't get any work done.

12. At lunchtime you think wistfully of all the food you ate over the holidays while you force yourself to enjoy the green salad you made as part of your clean-eating New Year's resolution.

13. But by 2pm you're crashing and really regretting choosing to live your life according to Pinterest boards.

14. You know deep down that you need to get something productive done in the afternoon...

15. ...so you spend half an hour choosing a new desktop background until your boss catches you.

16. But by then it's nearly 3pm so, really, what's the point in starting anything new?

17. You spend the last half-hour of your day staring at the clock and thinking about how cozy your bed would be right now.

18. Finally it's home time!

19. Your commute home seems way, way longer than usual.

20. Once you get into bed you plan to have an early night so you don't feel like this tomorrow.

21. But then you remember Netflix has an auto-play function. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯