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Breaks have an immense importance in our lives to revitalize our energies and potential. It’s good to be consistent at work but it is equally important to relax our minds. If a vehicle or machine keeps on moving without a break, it seizes at a point. It needs to be stopped for sometime in order to give optimum performance.

Humans also need breaks if they want to drag the best out of their resources and circumstances. However, I think the case with humans is different than that of machines. Stopping a machine altogether relieves it from the stress, but stopping a human from all the activities is not that effective in relaxing a human (at least, it is what I feel). If I think of taking a break where I don't perform any productive or beneficial task and keep lying on bed, such a rest would make me more stressed and anxious. To me, break means to shift your attention from one task to another for a while. Looking at the same spot over a long time blurs our vision. It exhausts us and hinders our way of probing new elements in the realm. After taking break when we come back, we have a fresher mind ready to observe and deliver what it couldn't before.
I remember when I was in class 10, I had a vacation of about a month before exams. Except physics, I thought all my courses were well prepared. That's why I put the greatest attention to physics. The first week went well with it, but then I felt like I was forgetting what I had learned. Anxiously, I revised but then I had the same feeling. As I moved on from one topic to another, I forgot the previous one. At the 12th day of the preparation it was a burn out. I packed up all the notebooks of the subject, but it was of no use. All the time, one after the other topics kept hitting my mind. I tried to remind what I learned. I could remember the things only partially. Irritating it was. ….. I realized my time was wasting, so I decided to move on to other courses so that I may give them a revision. I picked another course and focused my attention on it. Consequently , after a couple of days, my mind was able to retrieve all of the physics' course.

Well, that's story of the past. What about today! This weekend! Hmmmm…… For last two weeks, I have been trying to be consistent in posting and engagement. It may not be as much as other more active people provide on the platform. Nevertheless, for my life and routine it's quite too much. That's why I decided to take a break today. I neithet write a post nor did any commenting. Though I had some raw ideas in my mind for two contests on Hive (that are going to expire on Sunday) , yet to bring my energies back to the normal I took a break

And what I did as a break……

I did laundry….

Wrapped my blanket and comforter in plastic sheets, so that I would keep them in store till the next winter season. The winter has gone, so there is no need of them in my room.