Human Sabbatical

I’m taking a human sabbatical. This means that I won’t be online, I won’t be contacting people, I’ll be all alone. With my own thoughts. For one month.

I realize that being around people, I act in unconscious ways. I become unaware of my own thoughts and needs, until I’m finally alone. Then they come out of hiding. I’d like to meet them.

February will be a good month for me to do that. There are no visitors. My birthday has just passed. I have the apartment to myself. Just me, my bed, and my mat.

Also I’ll be doing a Vipassana retreat, so ten of those days will be spent in silence anyway. So this should be a piece of cake.

I’m a little scared of what I’ll do to fill up the time. But I think I’ll come out knowing myself far better.