Rested!

What2Say2Day? If I may loosely quote from Genesis 1..."and on the 7th day He rested". Rested. If I may now even more loosely embellish a line from Shakespeare..."Ahh, to rest, to lay down my head and simply do nothing but sleep". We all long for rest. We all like when we rest. We all enjoy an afternoon, no, better yet, an entire day of nothing-to-do-ness. And yet our days are filled with things to do. Turn off the blaring alarm, make breakfast for the kids (and coffee for you), take the kids to school, go to work, run errands on our lunch break, make arrangements for the weekend during down times at work, pick up the kids, take them to soccer (or dance lessons, or gymnastics, or baseball, or football, or piano, or...) go shopping for things you forgot to buy over the weekend, pick up the kids from whatever you dropped them off for, get dinner, go home, eat dinner, make sure the kids bathe (and if you're a kid you still have to do homework), wash dinner dishes, catch up on emails, pay bills, bathe ourselves and, finally, go to bed. And that's just Monday. Tuesday is, well, like the directions on the shampoo bottle says "rinse and repeat". People, please, slow down, find the time to rest and enjoy the things around you. I suggest you start with 15 minutes a day. For 15 minutes turn off all electronics - phones, computer, TV, everything. Find a nice quiet spot, or not quiet if watching people play is your thing, and simply do nothing. It's only 15 minutes, I know you can do it.