Traveling takes us away from who we have become, allowing us to remember who we want to be. ~Gary A Reichel
Find Yourself Again
While on this journey of life, the curiosity to learn seems to wane. I don’t think it is a situation of not wanting to learn, or that we get tired of learning …I think we just get tired. Work is seldom 9 to 5, and the pressures that go along with most jobs are NOT easily left at the office. With all the stress and responsibility the weekends are usually spent trying to catch-up on sleep and household projects.
There is little that can be done about the limitations on our time, but at what cost are we just “surviving”? At what point does a job start to encroach upon life? When is enough, enough? The answer is not simple, but let me try, “You know work has become too great a part of your life when there is nothing else to talk about. Everything you do is work related. If you are not talking about work, you have nothing to say. Your conversation at the dinner table is, about work. Work. Work, work.” Read the rest of this entry »