Rest Arrest.

Cultivate a sense of completeness; a sense of fulfillment. We are caught in a rat-maze; in a frantic rush at work, at home and even at our leisure time - organizing, managing and ensuring everybody is happy, nothing's amiss. After one errand, we jump to the next. There is no gap for a pat-on-the-back. There's no time for self-congratulation. There's no feeling of work done. Neither any sense of completeness nor fulfillment before the next errand. We are running on a gyre of incompleteness. Worrying even during our well deserved vacation that something's not done. Even if it's done, we worry that it was not done right. We exact a high standard on ourselves in respect of our performance but not the same attention is given to our well-being, our health, our rest. We will never experience true calmness if we are burdened by the restlessness of incompleteness. We will always remain unfulfilled. As an aside thought, don't you think that the pursuit of happiness is all wrong! If happiness is to be pursued, how then are we to ever catch it? Is it to be a lifetime pursuit and never perceived? Maybe, happiness is something that ensues from time to time and not pursued indefinitely. Here, i reminded of a saying about happiness: "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." We must remember that just as there are rest stops between train stations, there is also rest between work. Take this rest to refresh yourself, recharge and renew. Savor the little victories in life. Relish the bridging relief between tasks. Feel a sense of completeness. You deserve it as you have completed a task. Remember, living fully is to immerse yourself fully in all that you do, including rest. It is said that the supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Well, my take on rest is this: the supreme accomplishment is to draw the line between work and rest.  So, don't hold your breath in anticipation for the next assignment, meeting or deadline. Breathe freely, enjoy the break, savor a task completed, reward yourself. You deserve it.