TALES FROM THE MIDDLE SEAT

I Don’t Feel Like Writing Today

When you don’t feel like doing anything, don’t do anything, definitely don’t write about it.

Sanjay Singhal
4 min readJan 31, 2024

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Is there a fourth wall in writing that you’re not supposed to break by talking directly to your readers? Today I don’t feel like writing, so instead I’m just going to interrupt your day and talk to you, apologies for the lack of manners.

I walked into a yoga session this morning and when my instructor Vicky asked me how I was feeling, I said “Better I think. Yesterday was a blah day.”

Our yoga sessions are more like talk therapy than anything resembling actual exercise. She’s tried to get me to bend parts of my body before and all it does is make me complain to my wife, to my Uber driver, and a few days later to my yoga instructor again, that “My unbendy bending body parts hurt and could we please not do that again?”

So instead we dove into the subject. “Why was yesterday a blah day Sanjay?” asked Vicky.

I realized as I began to explain my blahs that it was actually a pretty good day. I caught up on a lot of emails I’d been ignoring because I was partying in Miami for four days. I had a great two hour lunch with a friend I hadn’t seen in a decade. I had a nap. And to…

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Sanjay Singhal
Sanjay Singhal

Written by Sanjay Singhal

I write about how to manage your career and life by telling stories about how I've botched my own career and life.

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