Today is a day of rest. A random off with no reason for the holiday from school. It's tempting to take those days off and try to shift into overdrive as though we have tricked ourselves into believing that days off are actually days to clear the to do list that looms over each of us.
This is dangerous I believe.
This is the way to build passionless, weary, burned out people.
I was one of those.
Days off are where you do things for no reason at all. The day where that horse you always see out in that field and you dream of feeding it, you go. You go and buy the largest bag of carrots and drive the fourty minutes with the windows down and you feed that horse. You giggle a lot and you realize later your face hurts from smiling constantly.
You lie on that bookstore floor and surround yourself in piles of books. You dive into the words of those before you that dared to rest and soak up their world and therefore had the peacefulness to record it so eloquently for generations to indulge in.
The day you go to the park and find your perfect spot where you can lie on your back and watch the planes land and at a certain point you laugh our loud when it seems as though they are so close, they might land on your belly. The engines roar and rattle every bone in your body. It's good.
This is the day you decide cliff jumping is the best option. You jump and jump and it never gets old. The waters chill makes you feel so alive.
This is the day you wander. You love. You leave your agenda at home. These are the days where your soul is being fed. The day that recharges, rebuilds, casts new visions.
Grab one of these
Carve these out and cling to them.
Bring a friend or find the friend in yourself. It's good.
No matter what just purposeless wandering. Go find it.
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