Take A Break!

For the past two and half months or so since I have been in Idaho for school I have rarely just taken a break. I can't seem to allow myself to not do homework for a day. I hate the feeling of "relaxing" when I know I could be doing school work instead. I don't know if anyone else feels this same way. I'm guessing you do since we are all honors students here. We all stress about school way more than we need to do. When I was in high school I would take lots of breaks. I usually would finish most of my homework doing the school week and not do any over the weekend. I think this worked a lot better than doing all of your homework during the school week and yet still finding some homework to do over the weekend like I do now. Now that I am in college I don't take breaks. I feel like if I'm not doing school work then I am doing something wrong because I thought college was supposed to be where you are constantly doing work. However, my grandparents came up from California to Idaho to visit me. I stayed in their spare bedroom of the bed and breakfast house they were staying at. It was amazing to get out of the dorm for the weekend. Plus, since I wanted to spend all of my time with my grandparents I didn't do any homework over the weekend. Of course at first I felt stressed out like I should be doing some type of homework even though I didn't have any. Later on in the weekend, though, I realized that I need to start relaxing and enjoy the time I have. After letting go of the feeling of anxiety from not doing work I felt relieved from my stress. Sometimes we all need to give ourselves a break from the hard work we do. Now that I had a great weekend away from school I feel refreshed and ready to get back to working hard in all of my classes. I realized that taking a break can actually make you more productive in the long run. Now that I feel refreshed I have a clear mind for school. So, take a break sometimes!!