Rest: the much needed sanity-potion

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Our modern obsession with productivity has blinded us to the fact that we lull ourselves into a false sense of entitlement to be productive, to wander in and out of work as if we were absent. Infinite hours of work as a badge of honour confirm our work ethic, but what it really expresses is a lack of respect for ourselves, our time, our fellow human beings and our environment. 

Being calm, instead of being passive, is actually an act of resistance, and it is treated as a form of self-control and not as a means to an end in itself. Because rest is so often confused with laziness and wrongly measured as success, it must be a priority, because we must measure success wrongly.     

Without rest it may seem unproductive, but in fact there is a lot of healing and rejuvenation of the mind going on. We often forget that a lot is developing on Earth, even if nothing is visible on the surface. 

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