What ails you today?

Solitude is a simple proposition.

You can create it anywhere. It only requires concentration. Just draw into your own shell.

You must be able to withdraw from others at times. No one can bear to give out constantly.

You must take in once in a while, live rhythmically, in fact. Work and play, give and take, struggle and rest. Otherwise, there is no balance, no poise. That is what ails you right now. You need to relax and rest, to take in. Stop going for a while.

Rest until the desire is strong to work again, no matter how long. 

It is a true test of whether you are obeying the law when you find yourself either sick or nervous or blue. You know by any of these symptoms that you have drawn too heavily on your reserve vitality and let other people drain you.

The remedy is perfectly simple.

After work hours just disappear from people. Go into your shell and wait until you have time to fill up again. Relax your whole nature. Do not give anything out either by sympathy or brain power, but lie quietly and make happy plans for the future.

Always remember the cheerful thought is what renews your poise.