The abc's of a momentary monk: E is for enough!

Have you ever exclaimed a resounding ENOUGH?! My guess is we have all been there at one time or another. I am five days into a ten day vacation of time off. I spent the first three days sleeping and just trying to stop all activity. The next two days not feeling guilty for resting and today I am writing about the experience of trying to unplug and disengage.

I have just completed a very busy nine months of hard work with little break and, to be honest, this rest is starting to feel good!

I am intrigued by this word enough. I found myself with not enough of anything I wanted like money at the end of the month, time in the day or enough sleep. Today I am saying enough to not enough.

That is what a vacation is all about. It means to vacate and to stop. To cease. To hit the breaks full on and hard! I needed it. We all need it eventually or life will give us a full on stop in some form. I felt like the Greek god, Sisyphus, who was condemned to the endless cycle of drudgery and futility of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to have it slip from his hands to tumble down the mountain--and then to begin the process again, for eternity! Not my idea of a good time, let alone eternity. How we easily find ourselves in those cycles.

So I will play a little. I know that I sound suspect now. I looked up the beginnings of the word play and it comes from an Indo- European word "plegan" and means to risk, to chance, to expose oneself to danger or hazard. Play redistributes the power of not enough time for the possibility of enough. Play reprioritizes and gives the opportunity for convention to be reconfigured by the serendipity, the unexpected, and the inconceiveable-- for the enough in a world of not enough! I wonder if we should all play more because isn't that the dangerous risk of sabboth? We risk stopping for time and power to be reconfigured in such a way that we see something beautiful again? Say ENOUGH to not enough!