Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,

Of soda and pretzels and beer,

Bring on those lazy, laid-back days of summer,

I wish that summer could always be here.”

These are the words I remember as a part of the song from many years ago. I cannot remember the name of the song or the name of the singer, but this particular stanza has always remained in my mind.

We become so hidebound with work that often we don’t think about taking a lazy day or time out from the tasks we need to undertake. Not only that, but with the advances being made in technology, work and task commitments are never very far away. Employees can be summoned by employers at any time, in any place, and anywhere they might happen to be because of technology and communications devices.

There seems to be so much more freneticism and accountability about work these days that it’s not funny. It is also true to say that many people have become so ingrained by the work and tasks that’s been forced upon them, that they really don’t know how to relax. And when they do stop from work for a period of time, sickness, and the ravages of fatigue encroach upon them and they finish up with periods of ill health.

Relaxing and lazy days are important. As someone once said, “No one on their deathbed ever regretted no having spent more time at work.”