Break the norm for the day

Breaking Daily Norms
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My norm has been working twenty-four seven. I have never missed work for a decade now even during weekends. I did break this norm for two weeks last month by just staying back at home and visiting friends and relatives both near and fear. I could only make unnecessary travels and/or ready novels and magazines at home. At times I could visit the prisoners and orphanage around the home as well as attending our church camp meeting. During this time of breaking norm also, I could attend political conferences in our county even when not invited. I also did play in our local football league. People, both my neighbors and relatives thought that the company where I used to work had failed (Posner, 2009). Others thought that maybe I was sick or maybe I was laid off. In fact, many came to visit me and check what was wrong with me that I was at home.
People had different reactions to the action of breaking the norm I had made. I received several calls both from my workplace and from different friends and relatives. Some were asking about my health state. Those were so much concerned made visits and more so frequent visits. Those who made frequent visits did not believe what I had told them that I had just taken a deliberate off to break the norm of ever-working. Some even made gossip about me that I was hiding something. Some behaved in a way that seems that they had something up there throat only that they could not spit in my presence.

They seemed weird in their relationship with me, not like the days before. Some even stopped calling or communicating with me in all means-they ignored me. The situation sometimes seemed weird and strange. Many of them asked me a lot of questions concerning my long stay at home.
On my side, I felt bad especially when several people started calling me and asking a question which could at a time go beyond the issue of breaking the norm of working. I felt very disturbed and troubled. I could feel afraid in some situation when I saw people come in the direction of my home. To some extent, I could laugh at different reactions people had on the issue. It was somehow a fun but more so troubling and quarreling from inside me. It reached a time I could fear approaching anybody new because of the several questions that I was tired of answering and yet they could not be satisfied (Posner, 2009). My family members were also asked the same to confirm if I was really okay. The situation since it was my first experience was very strange and uncomfortable. I felt to stop it even before the two weeks ended. I could at times feel remorseful for the action I had taken and could not feel justified in whatever way.
Additionally, I developed some form mixed feeling, of depression and stress due to too much concern for people from different places and of fun that I enjoyed different sport and adventures. My joy and pleasure were when we were in our church camp where we could interact with different new faces. There, people could not bother to ask me of my work or duty in my workplace. I think the different judgment of the people were biased to some extent. Some even felt embarrassed about this breaking of the norm (Posner, 2009). Some expected that I would never go back to work again and felt that I was risking losing my job. I don’t think if anybody felt inspired by my action of breaking my norm of ever-working since many worried about it. But also I am convinced that some got inspired when they saw me get back to work again.
References
Posner, E. A. (2009). Law and social norms. Harvard university press.