I thought today about how it might be a good idea that it become a social standard that every person, whether they be a nurse, a pastor, a middle school teacher, a velcro salesman, or a stay at home mother, that everyone would take a sabbatical.
This thought came to me when I very recently visited a place that I had not really been to in a couple years. It was astonishing to me that, at least at a surface level, how very little things had changed over the period of time that I had been away. People, for the most part, where caring, thinking, and worrying about the same things that they were three years ago.
And from my perspective, having been away, it offered me the opportunity to look at certain things with a different point of view.
This is not to suggest that I am awesome and smarter than anyone else, but I just think that it would be very beneficial for everyone to take like a year, maybe just a year and a half even, and leave. Get away, live somewhere else, sink into a new rhythm, learn things from different people for a while, and then come back with fresh eyes.
Speaking from the small amount of experience my life has given me, it seems that no matter who you are and what you do, after a certain period of time, the ruts of our lives are so deep that we cannot see out of them. It is not all so bad, but it is just a thought I had. Plus, sabbaticals sound like they would be fun.
ok thanks if you read this! talk to you soon
Jacob
