Just Chill

I think most students, when they enter any sort of extended break, feel some kind of angst in that they keep feeling like they need to be doing something or else they are wasting the day away. A week and a half back, I'm in that situation. I don't think I've gone to bed any night without thinking like I needed to do something productive during the day.

We talk about it all the time, and some even start to try it, but the thing is that we never actually take breaks. And when we do, they're halfassed breaks. The break consists of maybe spending an hour or two watching a TV show proceeded by some sort of cleaning or tidying. When the cleaning and tidying starts, you start to work again. Now that your body is into that motion and rhythm, the brain responds by saying you need to work. There goes the "break".

It's tough, at least I think, to go so heavy into working nonstop and then doing next to nothing for over a week. I keep feeling like, and I'm sure a lot of others do as well, I need to be doing something. Except I don't really know what I should be doing other than looking ahead to next term. I told myself that I have ~a month off, so my first two weeks will be spent doing nothing but the things that I love doing, no matter how much I feel the need to do something that is a mandatory type of thing.

So, I hope that everyone can be encouraged to take some time off just to chill and enjoy themselves and not feel guilty about it. It's Christmas season after all! Take time out for yourself and think about those chore-like tasks some other time!

Depending on whether or not I get another post out by Christmas, I'll just say is now: Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope that it's an awesome one for you and your loved ones.