Roll an Elf and play through their starting zones. Soak in that delicious lore. Unclench from your axe for a few days before the Battle for the Soles of Azeroth begins yet again.
Go play a different game, of a different genre.
Touch grass. Go on a long drive out of the city, disconnect from social media, the internet, even the phone and the text message. Get way out away from the city. Stare up into the night sky and wonder why it was you stopped noticing the stars no longer shone down until you left it all behind for a few short hours. Take a book you’ve been meaning to read, some sandwiches and something to drink, and make an evening of it.
Go do something well outside of your comfort zone, if you’re feeling solid and capable, and put a spark back into your heart, even if only briefly. Go sky-diving, go snorkeling, go help out at a soup kitchen, go walk the dogs at a shelter and try to help get them adopted. Go help march against the absolute nonsense happening in your government.
Fold those clothes and put them away for once.
Talk to your neighbours. Make sure they know who you are, and if you’re safe, or able, to be there for them if something is going down, or they need help with small tasks.
Go help out at a shelter and listen with an open mind and a closed mouth to the stories they tell you, be it homeless, women’s, domestic violence or refugee. It is astonishing what you’ll learn not just about others, but about your own culture, and yourself, if you just shut up and listen to somebody else and not try to justify yourself in the process. Learning to not clench every time somebody talks about fault and releasing that breath, that fault doesn’t mean failure, and accepting fault doesn’t make you weak, incompetent or a failure. A fault is simply an opportunity to learn and do better.
Dabble in cooking something from a culture outside of your own, and be brave with it. I started with vietnamese, I’ve moved to indian, once I can get some decent dosh under my feet, I intend to try to add some scottish and welsh dishes because good lord it is expensive to get your hands on the ingredients for haggis!
We live in an era where the knowledge of the whole world is, for the moment, almost entirely unfiltered by our governments and almost always free. Dive into this ocean of knowledge and potential and do something new with it. And if you fail or it flops, oh well, at least you tried. At least you were willing to crawl out of the rut and make an attempt, and you always learn more by falling on your backside and picking yourself up again.
