Take a Soothing Coffee Break

All people need to rest. It's a part of human nature. In nearly every job, you are typically allotted ten to twenty minutes to take a coffee break.

Most everyone who works for a living sees coffee breaks as vital parts of employment. After a few hours on the job, it's a little ray of sunshine and something to look forward to.

We're raised from childhood to understand the concept of a coffee break. After all, school recess is no more than a preadolescent form of the coffee break. Even as children, we're taught that everyone needs to have a little time to rest and relax. For children, recess is the one time in the entire day when they can play and be themselves without pressure from their teachers.

Why are coffee breaks important?

Coffee breaks hold a lot of clout, even to those who don't drink coffee. These daytime oases are much more than opportunities to sip a cup of joe. A coffee break is the chance to relax, kick back, cool off a little and get an energy recharge to prepare for what's coming next.

A coffee break is something of a metaphor for life. We are only human, and so we need to take coffee breaks. We simply can't work all day without any rest. Even God took a little break after creating the world.

Even machines, need their own "coffee breaks" right? Otherwise, they cannot work properly. If there's one thing that everything in this world has in common, it's the need for a "coffee break."

When you're feeling blue and tired of your job, you don't really look forward to retirement, do you? You're anticipating that coffee break and what comes with it. You look forward to chatting with your co-workers, to a cup of stimulating coffee, and to a snack and time to think and plan ahead.

We do have futures and long-term plans to look forward to, but we all need something in the meantime that's more immediate until those plans come to fruition. A coffee break is much like sleep: You look forward to it, but you know you can't have it forever, because if you sleep forever, then you wouldn't have a chance to live. You eagerly anticipate that coffee break because it would allow you a chance to rest, but you know that you have to earn money, so you don't want to be on a coffee break the rest of your life.

Time holds so much importance in today's society. Even the most time-conscious person, however, will agree that coffee breaks are a much-needed component of productivity.

A coffee break is a time to refresh yourself, to assess your work and to decide your pace. It is a time to reflect on what you've done and think about what to do next. On a coffee break, you can clear your thoughts without the pressure of the clock.

People need to socialize, even at work. Have you ever held a job for months or even years, and you still don't know the person sitting next to you? Go ahead and get acquainted.

Lunch breaks are important, but they have a different motivation. Meals are a necessity, and lunch breaks are taken to feed our bodies and recharge our overused batteries. Still, they just don't offer the same comfort that coffee breaks provide.

This comfort is what makes a coffee break so special. It encourages people to gather together, to interact and to connect. The coffee break is important because we all need a time to rest. But we don't have to look forward to resting in peace -- at least not yet.

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Angelina Pyrkins is a writer for a variety of popular web magazines, on family life and home garden issues.

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