Rest is a booster
REST IS NOT A WASTE OF TIME
Motion does not always translate to progress, activity is not always a proof of productivity. The world today tends to measure our value based on our output, tasks completed, work hours, achievements; and have put rest in a class that it does not belong. They have tagged rest as an enemy of progress, a blank space in the record of progress, a waste of precious time. They believe that to pause is to fall behind, to be still is to be unproductive, but this is against the nature of rest.
The period of rest is not a void between accomplishments, it is the very period where the ground is prepared for meaningful growth to be accomplished. A fallow ground is not lying waste, it is being prepared for another planting season that will allow productive growth. Fertility, vitality, and productivity is restored through rest, and that will make the period of work even more fruitful.
Sometimes, rest does not mean inactivity, it just means doing something in a different way, shifting focus to other things, or even starting afresh. Some activities brings vitality, so they can be boosters for a sapped energy level. When our body goes into a period of rest, our subconscious mind goes into a period of reassessment, reconnection, reorganisation, and recreation. These speeds up our progress when we come out of hibernation into active mode.
Rest is not a waste of time, it is the investment of time in our health, our creativity, our sanity, and our humanity; it is the deep breath before the high pitch, the gathering of strength before the leap, the pulling back of the string before the arrow is released. We must not disregard our period of rest, we must understand that we are not machines designed for perpetual output, but living, breathing beings whose greatest work often emerges from our moment of conscious rest.
To a better you, Kamikun John.
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