In  her book Page after Page, writer  Heather Sellers recommends taking a nap if life is getting to you, if you feel cranky and out of sorts or things are just not going your way. She says a mental health day is just the ticket to get you back on track.  How did we get so far off track in the first place? People push themselves to be more to do more to have more, to see more….. People invented the night shift so that they create more work time in a day and now work requires us to go into the wee hours long after the sun has set, trying to get ahead of our multitude of tasks—believing all the while that we can catch up. What are we catching up to? Where do we think we are going? If you fly over a lake in the summertime you will see all sorts of boaters driving their crafts against the wind racing to get to some point that only they are aware of, crisscrossing each other’s paths. From their point of view they probably believe they are going somewhere but from the sky view you can see that the boundaries of the lake are finite. They really aren’t going to get anywhere. If they do reach the edge, the only place is to turn around and go somewhere else.  Now look at the tree on the shoreline. There they stand – responsive to all that comes. They put out leaves in the spring; they drop them in the fall. They are not in a rush to get anywhere or seemingly to do anything but just stand there, yet the job they do for us in the world  is more important than any other. The world was created with day and night- periods of activity and periods of quiet–night being the time for rest, sleep and rejuvenation.  The world was created for our interaction with it and with each other.  We need to reestablish the natural rhythm that  came with our first breathe. We need to find out what it is that we are meant to be which for us will be just as easy as it is for the  trees. We won’t be caught in a world of busyness and bad moods, our life will flow and  every day will be a mental health day.