Live like a beast: especially behave like a homebody

We work without complaints day after day and get up early, go to bed late, and if possible, we also neatly fill our weekends with obligations and appointments and coffee dates and running sessions. But why?

A bit of a modern-day illness: being too busy. But we do it to ourselves, that's the whole problem. No one says you have to go to a birthday party, volunteer meeting, soccer match, and lunch with friends on Sunday. You do that yourself. We're a bit afraid of boredom. Afraid of having a ‘boring weekend’. FOB, ‘fear of boredom’.

And it can't go on like this, can it? That's why people are increasingly comparing themselves to animals. Well, we should do that because we can really learn something from animals. That burnout, depression, obesity, and high blood pressure are things we humans have, not animals. They hunt, have food, and then rest again. We hunt, earn a salary, and then go do a million things. Even on vacation. Visiting a town, discovering a new beach, swimming, exercising, going out to a trendy restaurant... We never have that moment of rest in us, that feeling of: it's good for now. You too have been caught in this.

The wise lesson of now? Think like a human and live like a beast. In other words: behave yourself sometimes not wisely, not smart, not overly responsible. You can definitely let that Sunday pass by without achieving anything. Leave that laundry. Cancel that old friend. Read that book. Stare out that window and yawn your head off. You can never recharge your battery otherwise, and believe us: if you never do this, one day you'll be completely out. We do more harm to our bodies than they are made for, that's a bit of the message that needs to sink in before you end up months knocked out on the couch and much further from home.

So especially learn from koalas, leopards, lionesses, and pandas; all nice and slow and lazy, if possible. Perform when necessary, but above all, also enjoy doing nothing. Boring should become the new busy, and soon too. Embrace that homebody in you this weekend.

I'll talk to you Monday morning. Not left your house on Sunday and thus still locked when you leave for work? Well done, you.