“What does it profit a man if he gains the entire world and loses his soul?”
Matthew 16:26
Last night, after an exhausting day at work, I went out for dinner with my wife. But my brain was so tired that it was difficult to hold a proper conversation. At one point, she asked me a question and it took me a full 5 seconds to process it and answer (she counted). When we got home, I wanted to read a book and pray, but I could only muster enough energy to scroll through YouTube before falling asleep.
It’s days like these that make me wonder that maybe I’m working a little too hard.
Today, I came across two articles about what it means to experience true leisure on Maria Popova’s excellent blog The Marginalian. Reading them made me realise that my ideas of “work” and “leisure” needed a complete overhaul.
So, I decided to write this post as a...