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I had the same experience [0]. The tunnel vision from work is so strong, that you forget about what's really important. Now, the office feels like a past life - I do not miss the commute, unnecessary meetings or facade of comradery. Ideally I don't have ever to go back to work, but even if I do the perspective shift has made sure I'll do it in a more balanced way next time.

[0] https://suketk.com/why-i-quit-google

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I wrote a similar blog post [1] about why I'm taking a sabbatical and it's really fascinating to compare motivations.

> My thesis is that if I focus on enjoying the journey, everything else will follow.

I wrote:

> I don't have a single big project in mind for my sabbatical... I do have a single overarching theme, however: joie de vivre. Everything that I do, even the mundane stuff (especially the mundane stuff), I'm going to focus on enjoying it fully. How you do anything is how you do everything, as the Buddhists say. I have come to believe that the person who can enjoy whatever they're doing and make that joy contagious will actually end up accomplishing the most. Yet even if I don't accomplish anything, I'll still be joyful, so what would it matter anyways?

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue

Im interested to hear how that goal worked out

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