It's lunchtime.
You need time to yourself.
You need time to disconnect,
To break away from that monotonous,
Grinding,
Ever-present thump,
Thump,
Thump,
Thump of work that goes on behind your eyes.
You can feel it throughout the day.
When you start the day,
You put on your work coat,
Your heavy,
Sodden,
Burlap,
Fur work coat of stress and anxiety and everything that you didn't do,
That you have to do,
That you want to do,
That you didn't know you needed to do.
It's all put on every single day that you come in.
But this is lunchtime.
Lunchtime is the time that you're going to take a break.
You're going to take a break for yourself.
You're going to disconnect from work and reconnect with yourself.
You need to find a quiet spot.
It doesn't matter if it's a break area inside the building because they won't let you leave,
Or you can actually walk outside.
As you brought your own lunch,
You can sit in the nice sunny area,
Quiet,
Disconnected.
Maybe listen to some music.
Maybe listen to someone talking to you,
Just like this.
But in any case,
You need to disconnect during lunch to give yourself some time to reconnect with yourself.
Everything that you just left behind in that building,
Everything that you essentially walked out on for the lunch break,
Is your time.
Your time to think about yourself.
Your family.
What you want to do.
Maybe it is so burdensome that you have to have some work thoughts intrude on that serenity.
But even with that,
Take that into stride.
Hold on to it and control it and say,
This is my time.
So I can think about you.
I can think about what I need to do or how that person interacted with me or why I'm not feeling my 110 percent best today.
But let it all go.
It doesn't matter right now.
What matters is you.
What matters is letting yourself give to yourself,
Be of yourself and be with yourself.
You need to disconnect from the noise,
From the sounds,
From the vibrations.
You can see the auras,
The presence,
The way that people interact with you and you interact with them because they're expecting something from you.
You're expecting something from them.
You don't know what to say.
They make a comment and you have to interact or react or respond in a certain way that you feel is appropriate or professional.
This is the decompression.
This is the unprofessional time.
This is the personal time.
You can sit down.
You can relax.
You can spread your lunch out in front of you.
Take your time to chew.
Take your time to look at what you have in front of you.
Look at the bounty you have.
It doesn't matter if it's an apple,
Some potato chips,
Last night's mac and cheese,
A bottle of water,
The cold coffee from 7 a.
M.
This is your sustenance.
This is what you need to relax yourself,
To take time to give back to your body,
To make sure you have the energy to get back in there after your break time.
But you need to think about yourself.
You need to think about your surroundings.
Look up at the sun.
Take a look at those flowers.
Breathe.
Just breathe and relax.
There's time to go back.
It's just not right now.
