Doesn’t this look peaceful? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to sit in this room with nothing to do but to wile away the hours with a book from one of those shelves?
This library is in Lithopolis, Ohio and is well worth a visit if you’re in the area. I wrote about it once and you can read that story here.
A quiet place in a beautiful old building to just sit and think sounds so welcome right now. There are some days when it feels like I have no quiet at all.
One of these days, maybe I will leave my phone in the car and sit here for a morning to just read and think. How luxurious!
Peaceful and beautiful.
You should make a habit of being far away from your phone as often as possible! (That’s what voicemail is for, right?)🙂
The problem is that I’m responsible for social media for my job. Even when I’m off I’m never completely off.
Seems like there should be an allowance for time off of that. Responses don’t have to be immediate.
People think responses need to be immediate and we try to accommodate. Sometimes people are facebooking us after hours because they are in crisis – their card doesn’t work or they lost it, etc.
I can tell my boss if I’m going to be off grid and, of course, I don’t watch it when I’m on vacation but the notifications still roll in.
I’m just mentally tired and stressed right now. It will improve.
Well, if sanity requires breaks from in, your employer ought to consider a fallback person.
My boss fills in when I can’t be available.
Of course, work is the reason I keep it close but I really don’t get that much work to do in off hours. Truth is, it’s the text messages, emails, Facebook messages, etc from other people that represent the volume of distraction. I can’t seem to separate one from the other.
I do think we allow other people to make too many demands on our time.
True. Very true.