Please, take your vacation time - and take an actual vacation.
There's a strange American nobility regarding not taking time off or not needing downtime. Rest has somehow become synonymous with weakness, and time to ourselves has become viewed as selfish, self-absorbed, or lazy, with both becoming luxuries, something allotted to a privileged or lucky few. When you combine this erroneous belief born of hyper-capitalism to the modern social media-driven culture of hustle, hustle, grind, grind, which promises to produce maximized profits, potential, and productivity, what you're ultimately left with is exhaustion, burnout, and existential despair. "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Zora Neale Hurston So, what should you do? Take that vacation time. We are on this beautiful spinning orb...