Mom is right, but not always.

While I claim I write every day, yet the truth is that I don’t. I skip off occasionally and fail to meet my obligation. You can say that I’m a lier. I take it because it’s true. But I’m not feeling embarrassed.

For example, I stopped working on my writing for a few days last week and it was intermittent in the whole week. I tried to show up and get the job done as planned, but things didn’t happen the way it should have been.

The clear thought crossed my mind a couple of times that I felt like I didn’t want to write anything, so I gave myself a few days off and made some room for my brain to think nothing at all.

Was I feeling frustrated?

Well, just a little, not too much. No big deal. I could forgive myself.

Taking a short break once in a while is important and necessary if we are doing a long project that takes way too much time and effort. As I mentioned previously, I suffered from a nasty knee injury in running, and it was precisely because I ran without taking any break. I have no intention of experiencing the same damage another time. It’s not fun.

It’s pretty normal to be in a void. Mom says, study hard and you will do well. And very often Mom is right, but not always.

Working too hard can easily wear us down. If we don’t want to do it, we can stop, take a break for a while, and then keep moving again.

There are times when I feel kind of lethargic and don’t want to write. On days like that, I try to think of all kinds of plausible excuses to slough it off. Taking a short break is a good one, obviously.

Looking back on the old days at school, when we didn’t want to go to school, what convenient excuses did we create? Headache, stomachache, missing the bus, bridges crashing suddenly. And even death of someone, which is a pretty bad one. We used to be the great artists of inventing excuses, didn’t we?

Making excuses to skip off occasionally is OK and understandable, but don’t do it very often. Leaving the door wide open for too long is dangerous. It will let the bad people in and make yourself vulnerable to attack.

So, I soon dragged myself back to seat and kept working.