Struggling to Balance Work and Family Life: A Personal Reflection

It still is, but I would like to participate more. Being in a family is not just going to the country together and then disappearing, cutting grass and chopping wood. Yes, it’s important and necessary work, but if doing it makes me disappear again, away from the children, that’s not right either. It’s like I’m with my family, but I’m not. Yes, it’s my fault that I didn’t follow the children’s routine as much as I should have. Of course, I asked how things were going at school, but unfortunately I’m not the one the kids turn to for any problems. In such situations, it is very rare for children to say “dad”, usually it is “mama”! That might be the answer to whether I have time for my family. Yes, as if I were there, but very often I am still busy with my works and creative pains. See, the problem with me is, as I say, I’m always somewhere else. Television, projects outside of television, the choir, the country, Libyans… I feel that all these people with whom I am connected in some way feel that I am somewhere else , but not with them. I have so many pieces of the puzzle in my life that I am nowhere one hundred percent. And it’s still a little unfair to the people I’m with. For example, even today – I came to work at the Sports studio, and the guys asked: “What, you still work here?” That’s the truth about it.