“I was dying.” Sounds tragic, doesn’t it? Well as much as I like to sound dramatic, it does speak truth in a sense… a rather metaphorical sense.
As much as I’ve been trying to “fix” myself over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of setback. I still consider that, overall, I’ve made progress, but it sometimes feels like whatever I do, I can’t seem to truly start my “new desired life”. One where I wake up every morning wanting to “take on the day” as they say, and write a blog post or read a book or film a YouTube video and not just sit on my ass all day playing video games or “escaping reality” in some other way.
This is where this trip to Greece comes in.
In the second half of July, the fam and I went on this Zakynthos island. An island of which no one has heard until this year, but for some reason it’s incredibly popular. Anyway, the AirBnB we stayed at was great except for one tiny little detail – the Internet was awful. Like not-being-able-to-google-something-bad. I really hoped I was going to be super productive in terms of waking up early and going to sleep on time and writing blogs and all that other bs. So obviously I was quite disappointed. Little did I know, it would turn out to be a good thing.
This is the first time in I-don’t-know-how-much-time that I’ve had little to no Internet while on vacation. Even though I think we can all agree that it’s nice to get disconnected, for me that always meant no tech, not – “no Internet”. What I mean is that while I was not able to get on my socials or google something whenever I wanted, I still watched a lot of Netflix (whatever I had downloaded) and played around on my iPad.
At the same time, our itinerary consisted mostly of going to different beaches, boat tours around the island and seeing other sights. A combination of being in the sun, swimming, social media detoxing and being super tired at the end of each day somehow made me “recharge my chi”.
Even though I felt super tired at the end of every day, I felt incredibly relaxed. I was finally able to, forcefully, take a break from the world. During the six days that felt like six months, I felt like there was nothing else in this world, like there was nothing beyond that island.
It made me more positive, amped for future projects and amped to create a plan to be more productive and get stuff done.
In a nutshell,
what I’ve taken from this trip is that sometimes it’s important to take a break from thinking to be sure we don’t burn ourselves out. To make sure we don’t find ourselves too far from who we really are.
Take a break now so that your future self thanks you.
Me, lol
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