The real moments of joy in most everyone’s youth while at school as the ‘break’. Those few moments that you can unleash your crazies, talk to your friends without repercussion and it was a true break from the mental grind of learning.
As working adults, most breaks fall on the weekend, holidays or your occasional vacation, but there are many working adults, increasing in numbers, who never truly experience the real break. Weekend is catch-up for other mental or physical work or even occupational work, holidays is taxing, and vacations come with their own mental anguish and grind. So how can one experience the break?
The break doesn’t have to be long. A mere afternoon or evening nap seems to recharge the energy meter. Many people take up some form of meditation or exercise regiment that is the equivalent of the school time break that we experienced as school children. Either way, our lives are busier than ever and to find time for the ‘break’ is becoming one that must be thoughtful or planned or our lives will be one without that much needed pause.
The real inertia to overcome in our lives is that of coming out of the break. When things just got quite and the mind is clear from chaotic and racing thoughts, we must enter back in to work to tend to the garden, or our crops will wither and die on the vine. It is as much as a cycle as sleep and waking life. Return from break can be as pleasurable as the cup of coffee when you awake in the morning to start your day. Return from break!
