"Leisure without study is death-a tomb for the living person." -SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4
("공부 없는 여가는 죽음이다 - 살아있는 사람을 위한 무덤이다." - 세네카, 『도덕 서신집』, 82.4)
You deserve a vacation. You work hard. You sacrifice. You push your- You deserve a vacation. You wop a plane, check into your hotel, and head to the beach-but tuck a book under your arm (and not a trashy beach read). Make sure you enjoy your relaxation like a poet-not idly but actively, observing the world around you, taking it all in, better understanding your place in the universe. Take a day off from work every now and then, but not a day off from learning.
Maybe your goal is to make enough money so that you can retire early. Good for you! But the purpose of retirement is not to live a life of indolence or to run out the clock, as easy as that might be to do. Rather, it's to allow for the pursuit of your real calling now that a big distraction is out of the way. To sit around all day and do nothing? To watch endless amounts of television or simply travel from place to ...
