There was this period of COVID lockdown where I would watch night time routine videos, made by the Japanese home and lifestyle YouTubers. They would always play this same soundtrack, and it would always involve this process of relaxing in warm lighting, as they sorted out their homes, or made themselves a midnight snack.
The other day, I changed upon a video using that same song, and It used to be a lot more calming than I remembered it to be. For some reason, I recall more of the anxiety and panic I had about work and other things.
Today, as I was keeping up the house, and winding down on my own, a little part of me wanted to try and watch a wind down routine video, with the same soundtrack. Is it because I’m feeling anxious about work again? Or perhaps I am indeed in a different place, and I feel like revisiting the concept of wind down videos as part of my own wind down?
I remember wishing I had a calm room to wind down into, because we were staying in a very hot and small apartment. Our fridge was smaller, our working spaces were smaller. There was no air conditioning, and in Singapore, that’s tough.
I feel like I’m living my wind down routine life in some ways, being able to make drinks and just chill in the living room comfortably.
Maybe I want to watch a night time routine video to see if it would match my own life now.
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