Washington D.C. is probably my favorite city in the country.
Behind Manhattan, that is, of course…
My girlfriend and I headed to D.C. last weekend to visit some of her college friends and get away for a couple of days. We hung out with her friends, went to a museum (the Newseum, to be exact, since I’m a big geek like that), went out to eat, went out for drinks, and just had a good time.
We try to deal with little things that pop up during supposed non-office hours, think about work matters while we’re at events of whatever sort in our personal lives. And unfortunately, sometimes that’s just what’s necessary.
The weekend in D.C., however, was a rare period of time where I (almost) completely let go, and didn’t think (too much really) about work matters, and just enjoyed myself and had a nice time. I wish I could do that more often, the stress certainly isn’t good for any of us…
Stress is unhealthy, of course, and we’d better not allow ourselves to get sucked into the trap of not ever being able to separate from our work. In the crazy, challenging and, at times, certainly difficult world we live in, we should make every effort to take a step back and forget about work, ignore our work e-mails and just enjoy our family, friends, and loved ones, and our lives, as much as we can.
“Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.” -- Thomas Fuller
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