Why taking a break, just the decision of forbidding yourself from creating something new or writing, even if you have something to say or you’ve discovered something new, is bad.

In order to be able to think, whatever that thinking entails should not be forbidden.

If you discover something new but you’re not allowed to write it down in full detail, you risk holding it in your head for too long, which will occupy a great deal of your working or short-term memory, leading you to be unable to focus. This means that in the period of time that writing is forbidden – due to the fact that you’ve declared yourself to be in some kind of break from work – you will only clutter your mind and slow yourself down if you started thinking and getting ideas, because you never know when a brilliant idea might come to you. It could be at any moment. And then you’d have to write it down. You’d then have to work. Which means you’d have to terminate the day off, the time you’ve taken off of work, or the break from work. You will be forced to end the resting period of time or session. In this case you’ll have no choice but to prevent yourself from thinking altogether, rendering even basic functioning as a human being considerably challenging, if not impossible.

If you’re not allowed to write, you’d consequently be not allowed to think in the first place as well, because you’d either have no choice but to write, which is work, which means you’ll be no longer resting or taking a break from work, or you’d keep being in a state of chilling while not allowing yourself to write at all, making yourself unable or not allowed to think at all in the first place along the way. You will then get no ideas. You will then become unable to even learn anything new, lest you discover something or get some kind of brilliant idea worth sharing with the whole world during the process. Anything that leads to you getting new or interesting ideas worth creating a piece of content about, around, or because of it, or in order to discuss it in depth or in full detail, will also become forbidden along the way as a byproduct, whether you feel like it or not, whether you choose to or not. Whether you decided to fight back or not.

It’s okay to rest until fully recovered and until you’re ready for more work. It’s only not okay to take a break from writing altogether during which you are not allowed to write anything, lest you’d interrupt or pause your sacred break or resting session in order to write something down in full detail until you cover everything you wanted to say or everything you have to say. (Maximal level of writing, like full articles or book chapters, not just jotting some random thoughts or ideas down on a piece of paper to be dealt with some time later on when you have the chance).

You have to always have the option of discovering something new, or else you’d start convulsing.