Rest and Replenish: Taking days off and other alternatives

If you’ve a job anything like mine, I‘m going to assume you’re having fun every single moment that you’re doing or thinking about your job.
When you’re at work, you go all in no matter what. Because it brings you joy.
You cannot, for the life of you, imagine it any other way.
And that’s how work should make you feel.

In the same happy vein,
"If work is fun and you love doing your job, you could do it all day, any day, forever. Because it shouldn’t feel like work.”
—….atleast so I believed until this morning.

Nope.

I realise now, the obvious. That that’s a romantic notion. Energy is a finite source apparently :0.

The (absurd) truth is, if you want your job to not to feel like work, you should actually treat it like work.
No matter how fun the work is, there is merit in building some discontinuity into it.
And when I say building discontinuity, its the gaps in doing work, (or the illusion of gaps) that help you come back to work with a renewed hunger to serve and contribute, and have fun while you’re at it.

For most, “building discontinuity in work” to rest and replenish one’s energy resources might look like taking days off and/or not working on weekends.
I wish it was that simple for me..

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Heard of Sisyphus?

Sisyphus is the guy who lives life to the fullest, hates death (metaphor for ‘rest’) and defied it twice, and was condemned to a meaningless task for the rest of eternity.

“A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end.”- Albert Camus

Now, the story of Sisyphus paints a little bit of an extreme picture about work. But I paint it anyway because for me its a stark reminder to fiercely protect the joy work brings me.

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Okay for those whose brains aren’t fashioned to compartmentalise things and who think about everything all the time, how on earth do you action ‘rest and replenish’?

How do you rest and replenish for the thing that you find great deal of joy doing?

I have no ideas so far. So I welcome yours.