Knowing How To Have Fun

[unspeakablehorror]

I think just as it's important to learn how to work (not just the specifics but the generalities like planning), it's important to learn how to best rest and relax. And I think the latter is treated as something people will naturally be able to do. But it simply isn't. Some indications that someone hasn't learned how to best rest and relax:

* boredom during free time

* treating free time like work and trying to complete as many free time 'tasks' as possible. This may be indicated by lack of enjoyment of recreational activities or feeling drained. What's constitutes overdoing it may differ from person to person, but at some point it's not recreation but self-imposed work.

Of course sometimes the issue is not a lack of knowledge about how to take it easy but some other extenuating factor like extreme stress or anxiety, but these issues can also compound each other if both are present.