With this prompt last year I reflected on the fact that a year before I needed a break from everything…grad school, my job as the principal of a school, all of it. Last year at this time I was enjoying the break. My permanent break. I had quit all of what was stressing me out, though I did finish grad school first. I explained that I don’t need a break from anything. Nothing in my life last year was wearing me out yet.
This year though? I don’t think I necessarily need a break, but as I’ve explained in previous posts, I just want to do something different. I’m tired of my job and really want to focus on doing something else. While I’m looking and applying to other jobs that I’d like to do, I’m still enjoying the original break I wrote about last year. I will never not be grateful for the fact that it’s Saturday morning and I don’t have to write lesson plans today and I won’t have to grade papers during the Super Bowl tomorrow. I don’t have any assignments for grad school to work on. I’ll do some laundry today, because that’s what I do on the weekends. I’ll post on social media, maybe read some more of the next book I started reading. Maybe I’ll work on a yarn project. I don’t know. But I have the time to do those things. And that’s honestly the best break I could ever need.
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