Breaks Are Not Necessary

Sometimes, we need to take a break from life; from school, from our professions, and from healthy habits.  Despite the carefree and exciting nature of breaks and vacations, the fact that we even feel the need to take a break from things is not a good thing in and of itself!  

Breaks are required for when we are working too hard on the same thing and are not living a balanced lifestyle. When we go from the extreme of all work and no play, we go straight to all play and no work because we feel as though the opposite will create the opposite effect that work does, sadness, anger, frustration, etc.  Humans cling to what feels normal and comfortable, and in this commonly fought situation is going to the extreme.  Let's change the non-physical element to the situation instead of what we are doing.  

Often times in life, the actual things we do are not what make them bad, but to the extent of which we love, hate, obsess, use, abuse, or say them.  For example, exercise is neutral term, because exercise to John means working out to the extreme even if sore, while exercising to Alexa has no existence in her life and inactive lifestyle.  Neither of these people are correct due to the lack of balance they both have achieved.  Nothing in life is simply black or white, everything simply falls in the zone between it.  And that is where personal decision making comes in:  we choose how extreme from one side to other we will go.  Even see-saws can find balance.  

Things that often times need balance in our lives include habits that coexist together; things that many would believe cannot exist together in one soul or lifetime.  These can include exercise and rest, water and sodium intake, work and play, and even in relationships, such as when it comes to taking turns and compromising.  Spending time with getting to know others in contrast to getting to know yourself is yet another element that needs to maintain balance within the span of the lives we have been blessed with.