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Wellness Check 9/9/2021

Wellness Check 9/9/2021

Sep 09, 2021

Do you ever just look at art? I mean really just look at it and appreciate it, not with a critical eye, not explain the techniques used or specific colors. Just set back and look at art and appreciate the completed piece the artist wanted to portray. Then just let it move you, explore how it makes you feel. Even if it's a piece other people don't like, if you find something about it speaks to you, let it speak to you. Enjoy the moment, don't ruin it with harsh criticism or mockery, try and see what the artist was telling you and then think about what it means to you.

Now why is this a wellness check? Our lives are made extraordinarily busy. The average American has less time off and holiday than medieval peasants. We've become so enveloped in hustle culture, having to squeeze productivity into every second of our days that we stop enjoying why we are even alive. I don't know about most people but building spreadsheets isn't why I am alive. They shouldn't be why you are alive.

Art, story telling, music, leisure time are all marks of a civilization, without them just doing work makes us less than animals, because even animals play with each other sometimes and aren't just all "eat, sleep, reproduce." So take a moment today and enjoy some art, enjoy some music, let it speak to you and that you were alive to appropriate something that beautiful.

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