Your “Time Off” is Your Real Life.

And it’s not optional.

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You know that time you spend at home or out when you’re not working, not doing chores, and not running errands?

That’s your life.

Whatever you spend doing that time, that’s your life. That is how you’re choosing to spend your precious life and time on this planet.

This is not “time off.”

“Time off” implies that you’re not on. This makes sense for work terminology. You’re “off” work.

But workaholism isn’t just a content trend from 2018. It’s still a chronic problem that’s killing people.

Personally, I blame the normalisation of workaholism for the rash of discussion about time off.

(Though to be fair, American companies have a long and sordid history of

Of course, the assholery of Buzzfeed has also put time off at the forefront of people’s minds. If you’ve accrued paid time off, are you entitled to the money from that imaginary paid time you’re owed?

The answer is yes. Because time off is real life.

Working is not the default.

It’s something humans need to do to achieve purpose in life, yes. If you don’t have a purpose and a task to make yourself useful, you’ll end up a…