Don't Worry - Take a Break

This is the last week for the 2017 Great State Fair of Texas. I have gone every day for 2 weeks.

I am feeling it, after all.... nearly 60 here.


Watching the people walk and eat and talk as they enjoy the Fair has been fun.

I have discovered three things:

1. Kids have unlimited energy, until they don't

In the morning, kids run back and forth trying to see everything. They have little patience with adults who are strolling and thinking about the next tasty adult beverage. They want to have it all, eat it all, ride it all. 

By evening, they are back in their strollers, wagons, parents arms; tired, full and content with the cheap toy that cost dearly in game tokens. Even parents look happy to be going home.

2. Adults talk about everything except where they are

Eavesdropping is entertainment. I listen for snips of conversation.

They talk about work, about absent family members, about recent events. They are catching up with their friends and family by sharing life stories.

Walking along the Midway is a chance to visit.

3. Taking a break is wonderful

There are an infinite number of things that can fill up your life
For instance, worry about: work, health, finances, family, the price of corny dogs.
From time to time, it is important to take a break; relax and recharge.

How? Do something different, something outside your routine, something novel. 

Like take yourself and your loved ones to the Fair.
Take a week off from your weekly blog.
Part your hair on the other side... just for a change

There is always time to enjoy life.
You have to find it, make it, take it.
It is outside our regular routine, but so important.

Without these moments of rest and recharge, we would quickly burn out and burn up.

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