You can't relax even on vacation

Ah, you traveled a thousand miles to relax and brought the one thing guaranteed to prevent it — yourself. You packed your restless self along with your luggage — relaxation is not a place you travel to but a state you carry or fail to, so the beach cannot relax a mind that will not stop working, and the trouble is not the wrong vacation but the unrelaxed you brought to every one. You are trying to relax efficiently, which cannot be done — optimizing every hour and racing the sights, treating relaxation as a task, like trying to fall asleep by concentrating hard; it can only be allowed, not achieved, arriving when you stop managing. And practice small relaxations before you need a whole vacation — a system that never relaxes cannot relearn it in seven strained days, so build the muscle at home with unhurried evenings and aimless hours, and the vacation finds you already able to rest. What happens in you when you try to do nothing?