My Favorite Drug
I love to work. It’s my thing. I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic. Jennifer Lopez once said that she’s a workaholic and she doesn’t consider it a bad thing.
As much as I admire Jennifer Lopez as an amazing actor/dancer/singer, I do not think she’s right. I consider anything that ends in -aholic a bad thing.
So I had to learn how to take one day to rest. Just one day.
I decided to make myself some rules to help me focus and stay realistic. I figured I would start small.
Here are my rules for the Sabbath, which is on Sunday for me:
No news
No social media
No laundry
No e-mail
No making the bed
No exercise
Then, I came up with things for me to do to counteract my addictions to the above items. So here is what I CAN do:
Bake cookies for a neighbor
Call a friend I haven’t talked with in a while
Garden
Read a book
Attend a religious service
Take a stroll
I think work is an important thing. It gives a person dignity and purpose. There’s nothing bad about work. In fact, it is very good. But if we don’t put our labor in the context of something greater, it becomes a drug. And that is a bad thing.
I decided that a better word for ‘rest‘ would be play. Play on the Sabbath. Like a vacation.
Play, after all, is a higher state of being because it is done only for itself.
We work to get something. Example: We work to get money to pay for food, house, clothing, etc.
On the other hand, we play just to play.
So on Sundays, I rest to remember how to play. And now I look forward to this fun, unique day above all others!
