Maybe I am crazy but I am not one to usually get depressed and/or sad. I am not impartial to other emotions considering sometimes I am outraged, content, ecstatic, etc etc, but I rarely am down and or in a state of sorrow. There is one thing that gets me down that I am encouraged to share. As I woke up this morning at the inhumane time of 6:00 am to come into work, I got up and got ready and followed my usual Sunday morning routine operating like machinery and made it to work right when the sun was rising. I usually don't start thinking until after I have had coffee but I digress. I took a quick cigarette break or as the British say, I beat the fag, and I noticed what an amazingly beautiful day it is. This is where the melancholy wave of realization took me. I was inside an office sacrificing an incredibly beautiful day. Why was I at work when the sky seemed to never have been a deeper hue of blue. The air is crisp giving a human friendly temperature of 75 degrees fahrenheit a deceptively cooler feel. The clouds themselves are taunting me with their freedom. Yet I force myself to go back inside to only stare at this gorgeous day through 1.5 inch thick glass. Why do we do this to ourselves? I consider myself fortunate to be in the country and financial state that I am in and I know others may have it harder than me but I still wonder why we - in the U.S. especially - work ourselves to the bone. I am even envious of the birds! To attain greater possessions and position in life is why we work but are we missing out on a greater asset? The U.S. has the highest stress levels in the world and sometimes I feel like I will never see the end of working. So they tell me take a vacation Charlie! I say one week a year to enjoy this little blue planet we are on isn't enough. Maybe I am tainted from having been to a country not so long ago that enjoyed an hour break after lunch time from work. I am not lazy by no means otherwise I would not be up at 6:00 am but I just wish I could be outside today on a boat, on the beach, or at a theme park. (I live in Orlando or in other words right by Disney) Maybe I am just crazy...Just a thought