Calm before the sprint

My mood before break starts is calm, serene, and relaxed. The goal is to recharge for the sprint toward the end of the year — grades, graduations, planning, hiring, saying goodbye, saying hello.

Then it’s summer. Then the beginning of another year.

Time flies, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether you’re having fun or not. Maybe I can spend more time enjoying the current moments instead of planning for the next.

Where in your life are you spending more energy planning for the next thing than actually being present in the current one — and what would it look like to slow down, even just for a day?