Apt timing. I was just revisiting a voice not from after Christmas vacation where I noticed the same thing in myself. I "take vacation" all the time, in that I

Apt timing. I was just revisiting a voice not from after Christmas vacation where I noticed the same thing in myself. I "take vacation" all the time, in that I'm fucking off from some kind of work for a couple days straight. Why do some feel different than others? Because of whether I feel like I'm "allowed" to be doing it. The core healing property of a vacation, at least for me, seems to be a vacation from the shame of feeling like I'm misallocating my time, rather than a vacation from any particular task. This also explains why deep work can feel so nourishing despite being very unlike what we'd normally think of as "vacation". Glad to see this topic get some play on HN. Really curious about other people's experiences and solutions here.