One Apple A Day #745 - time off
A few months ago, I took two weeks off from coffee. Mostly to be sure that a lovely morning ritual wasn't becoming a mechanical routine.
It's a good practice I learned a few years ago.
Because everything can become a hamster wheel if we don't pay attention. We begin things because we need or love them. Then we keep doing them because they gratify us and they become habits.
And it's a great thing as long as we remember why we are doing them.
Who are we in that practice or ritual?
Even the most beautiful and joyful practice in life can become mechanical if we don't pay attention.
So, sometimes it helps to take some time off and take ourselves out of the spinning wheel, to observe and sense.
A pause, to remind ourselves what is important.
Why that thing is important in our life.
Taking a pause is particularly important with the things we love to do, our passions. Because those are the things that can become our invisible prisons if we don't pay attention.