Time to Play
Everyone seems busy in self-improvement, money, business, and in general, being on the daily grind. It’s easier to brag about how little time we have to do any leisure activities. It’s easy to pity-brag about how we’ve been slaving away at work for an extra hour or two everyday. It’s not as easy to say you spent the afternoon listening to music and dancing around. Why are we often ashamed to freely enjoy ourselves?
Life is a game, a gift, and an opportunity. In order for it to be played properly, it needs a balance. Work can really suck, but it’s also great and gives us challenges, money, and improvement. Play is really great, but too much of it can leave us feeling unfulfilled and anxious to do something productive. We need to find peace in the gray area between both play and work. Often we get caught in black and white thinking because we fear being judged as a lazy person for taking a day to literally do nothing but relax.
If we don’t relax and play, then life can seem quite bland. There’s no point in working so hard if we don’t have the opportunity to enjoy ourselves. Additionally, we are less productive when we are deprived of having a release and letting ourselves unwind a bit. On top of that, I hate thinking about working all year round in order to just have a week or two of vacation, in which I’d barely get to enjoy myself before I’m back on the grind.
Play can be a daily thing. Play can simply be an hour of time; or play could be a weekend of doing silly and unproductive stuff. We often look down on those who aren’t always on the hustle. Of course, it’s great to make money, but there’s way more to life than just making money. It doesn’t require the opposite side of the spectrum in being a bum, either.
My life hasn’t been easy, but I’ve done the best I can to provide while also doing what I want. Sometimes finances bring me stress, but I always trust in God to provide. What better way to live life than doing what you love to do? It’s an art to be able to take calculated risks to live out your dreams rather than plug into a system of perceived safety – just to make a steady paycheck. A steady paycheck doesn’t create the equivalent to a happy and secure life – only God can take care of that.
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