One of the women I admire the most in the entire world is her: www.blondinbella.se
She started blogging when she was 14, started her first company when she was 16, now she has a fashion collection, published book, a brand new magazine, a web shop and a private investors company. And she is 20 years old.
Who said beauty and brains can't come together?
Just now she blogged "I will take a break from everything this weekend. Shut my cell phone off, don't check my e-mail, nothing".
And I figured that's something we all should do from time to time. To dare be unreachable for a while.
Do you remember in the good old days, when yo went on vacation, and nobody could reach you for three weeks?
Wasn't that wonderful in many ways? I love my laptop and smartphone but...I'm never offline. I'm never on a real break.
And nowadays if you don't respond to an e-mail within the hour, you get text messages and phone calls from that person, that is a bit insulted you didn't take time for them at that red hot minute.
Being online constantly leads to stress. And I think we are not aware of half of it. It is such a part of our daily lives, that we have forgotten what it was like to be completely disconnected and free from the rest of the world.
But I vaguely remember hot summer days as a child. I ran barefoot through the woods of the north of Sweden, without a care in the world.
When the sun got lower, and I got hungry, I ran home to eat. Nobody worried if I was a bit late. Parenting in the north of Sweden 15 years ago was a non-stop holiday compared to what I see here in the Netherlands now. Yikes.
A part of becoming more healthy is to learn to let go of the world. Shut the phone off. Leave the world be for a while.
Let go of the constant flow of news.
And just breathe in. And breathe out.
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