Today, I made myself that question. What strikes me the most is that I had never considered the option in the past; I guess that's not a question that someone regularly asks oneself, is it?
I had heard the term before, but it never got my attention long enough to search for it. Today, it was different and I found myself at Wikipedia reading about burnout (psychology). I'm surprised at the symptoms, they seem fairly common to me—are they fairly common? Take the list, can you skip through it without realizing some of them are part of your life?
So, Am I burnout? I have no clue. I'm not a psychologist, neither a hypochondriac but this non-specialized article at Wikipedia at least made me see my friends' remarks regarding my "autistic", "strict and non-flexible","work-too-much", "secluded" life in a different light.
I have left behind the daily jog or weekly bike ride that was part of my life in Hsinchu—while riding a bike in Singapur qualifies as having a deathwish, it is very nice to walk the city's parks. I have stop shooting pictures of sky, clouds, and sunsets from the seat of my Iguana. I have done all of it for the sake of "hitting the ground running and get a publication as fast as possible." A fairly stupid reason, to be honest. I managed to hit the ground running at Prof. Lee's group in NTHU and still have a life.
Well, I'm off to walk the city, I may get a camera too...
PS. Ask yourself the question, it may help. It shed a new light for me.
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