With the absence of a low, the high loses all meaning.
It's been 105 days since the last time I penned down my thoughts on a Sunday, and it definitely feels good to be back, and with a fresh look that too. These 105 days were very important to me, I took a break from something I've been doing for as long as I can remember, writing. My earliest memory of writing is when I used to buy notebooks in third grade and fill them with chapters and chapters of stories that somehow made up, what I could call at the time, a novel.
A break from writing is something that I've unconsciously taken all the time, but this was the first ever time I consciously made the decision, and it was a good one. Everyone needs a break from everything and this 100+ days only taught me that it's important to go through both the highs and lows in life. It becomes very hard for a person who's always been happy to understand the hurt of being sad, and there's no pleasure to being happy without the existence of sad. 'Opposites are created in nature all the time', something a friend once pointed out to me and something I can never forget.
This very short mail hopes to instil in you, the thought that it's important to take a break, if not necessary. Not because you're burnt out, I don't believe burn-outs are real, burn-outs are just an excuse to push the deadline of a thing you really want to do but you're too scared/lazy to start doing. It's a manufactured delay. It's important to take a break, because in that space, you suddenly have the time to realise a lot many fundamental things that you've been missing out on.
I like to picture it as a pushup away from the ground all the way to space, where the body is floating pointlessly, without and with purpose at the same time. An eagle's eye view. That's what a break is to me.
