Break Up Your Day at the Office

Some days work just feels like work. Some days you need to just get out of the office and get back to neutral. Sometimes that means thinking outside of the box. Today, a co-worker and I took our lunch break and went back in time. A time when parents feared you because of your germs, and life’s consequences were always an after-thought. We did this the best way we knew how. We made a trip to the Fun-N-Games arcade! One of the best places that a kid can be a kid! (Well, maybe it’s not necessarily the best arcade, but it’s sufficient)

The way I see it, that lunch hour is yours to do as you please. If it makes you  feel less guilty about having that much fun during a work day, put a pack of Airheads in your back pocket and call it your lunch (dibs on the white mystery flavor!). I spent part of my afternoon shooting aliens and drug lords, racing NASCAR and some sweet motorcycle game, playing skee ball, and winning a rubber snake and crazy green witch-finger. For that hour, I was lost in the wondrous coalition of interactive lights and sound. I was 7 [years old] again, and filled with simplistic joy, amusement, and even a sense of victory and achievement. Today, I came back from my lunch with bragging rights. My achievements surpassed those around me today… today I earned a personal best, and a new high score on Whack-a-Mole! More important than that, I came back re-energized because I had a blast goofing off and making the most of my lunch hour.

My point is that this is the one hour between 8 and 5 that is YOURS. Throw the pigskin with a friend, play on a jungle gym at a nearby park or school (preferably if school isn’t in session, creeper), or just get out and do some random stuff that’s borderline illegal but makes you feel alive! That’s what this is all about! If the repetition of a job ever gets you in a rut (and believe me, this can come and go at any job at some point along the way), seek out some new ways to time travel. Take control of life, and get back to never growing up.