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"The Calm"
8.31.2011 || 8:31 PM
Devote your self. To your self. --Me
The best and most fulfilling form of relaxation is mental rest. I can confidently say that the moment I decide to rest, after a calming, hot shower, I close my eyes intently and the unthinkable happens --
I THINK. Unless I've spent endless hours on my feet, elongating my will to its most devastating limit, the thought of resting often remains little more than a mere thought.
Many avid thinkers are no different from myself.
Masters in the art of kicking up our feet, propping up a pillow or two, a calming album or book as a companion... and hours later the calm has not yet made way for much else than a heavy sigh and boredom.
The thought process brought on by what I like to identify simply as
The Calm leads to frustrated inactivity, despite the plethora of activity in my mind when I need it LEAST.
Science explains that, while asleep, the mind tries to solve the problems of the preceding day.
But when I all would rather do is forget the problems, if only for an undetermined amount of hours, perhaps
The Calm needs a new name.