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At my last job, there was this unspoken rule that lunch had to be social. Everyone gathered in the break room, making small talk, laughing a little too loudly, pretending we weren’t all exhausted.
But there was one coworker who always took her lunch outside, sat on a bench with her food, and just… existed. No phone, no conversation, no pressure. At first people whispered—“she’s kind of antisocial,” “does she not like us?”
One day I asked her about it, and she just shrugged and said, “It’s the only 30 minutes in my day that belong to me.”
After that, I started noticing how drained everyone looked by 3PM… except her. She came back calm, focused, recharged. Meanwhile, the rest of us had spent our “break” performing.
That’s when it clicked... wanting quiet doesn’t make someone rude. Sometimes it just means they know how to take care of themselves.
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