Ever have so many things going on in your mind that you need to take a mental break?<\/p>\n
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I have been thinking of retirement, relationships, my child and family, my current job and a several other things lately.<\/p>\n
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The days have been beautiful and warm here. I’ve found myself feeling like I didn’t really want to be in the office working.<\/p>\n
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That’s not unusual for many of us. A beautiful spring day coming off a mild winter brings out the spontaneous part of me. The other day I actually thought of driving two hours after work to the beach just to see the ocean.<\/p>\n
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For me, I know it’s getting close to springtime when I start feeling like that.<\/p>\n
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Instead, I took a little afternoon jaunt with my mother and we had a great time riding around, looking at the lake and visiting with some friends.<\/p>\n
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Yesterday I still had that in my system and decided to take a ride way out in the country. Yep, I just got in the car and rode.<\/p>\n
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You see, for me, taking a ride clears my mind and I needed that. Turning on a little music, opening the windows, and smelling the fresh air does it for me.<\/p>\n
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The flowers were blooming everywhere, the sun was peeking through the clouds and it was a beautiful sunset coming back over the dam from Lexington.<\/p>\n
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By the time I got home I had solved the world’s problems…or at least sorted through mine a little.<\/p>\n
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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you take the time to be spontaneous sometimes and do something that is not a normal pattern for you everyday. It may just make life a lot clearer for you.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever have so many things going on in your mind that you need to take a mental break? I have been thinking of retirement, relationships, my child and family, my current job and a several other things lately. The days have been beautiful and warm here. I’ve found myself feeling like I didn’t really want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,31,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-releationships-general","category-retiremetn","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}