Impossible to rest (not even) on vacation

All my friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances shared a common longing for the recent Easter vacation: to get some rest. We all reached our vacation days with a radical need for rest, but when the vacation break was over, we craved time to unwind from the weariness of the holidays. For the vast majority, living has become an exhausting exercise. The fact that this week I want to write about rest is, in reality, a way for me to demand rest within this column as well. To stop thinking about what’s happening in the world, and what I could formulate a more or less interesting or appropriate opinion about. To think about the world also means to rest in it, to look at it slowly, to be speechless, to say nothing. And here I am, silent, relaxed, and with a question to reflect on together: why are so many people so profoundly tired?

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Fuente: El País