cheap that you can have a fantastic lunch for
less than a dollar without feeling that you limit
yourselves on something.
I had plenty of time and seemingly no
problems. Yet, I rarely felt at peace with
myself. I didn’t know what to do with all the
time I had; I couldn’t appreciate its value.
I’m not saying it was a useless period of my
life. At all, not. Sometimes we do need to stop,
take a pause, look at things from a distance to
see where we’re heading. But if the break
becomes too long, we fall out of a natural
cycle.
Active and passive states should change over
again and again. If we stay active for too long
without breaks, we get a burnout. If we remain
passive too long, we slow down and may
become lazy, inert, and even unconfident to
act decisively. It gets hard to integrate again
into regular human social interaction.
When I was eventually forced to go back to
social life, I felt much more cheerful. After
working hard the whole week, weekends
became a real well-deserved pleasure.