“If the heat goes over 104 degrees in South Carolina, you have to go to bed. It is practically the law. Some people might see it as a shiftless behavior, but really, when we’re lying down from the heat, we are giving our minds time to browse around for new ideas, wondering at the true aim of life, and generally letting things pop into our heads that need to. In the sixth grade there was a boy in my class who had a steel plate in his skull and was always complaining how test answers could never get through to him. Our teacher would say, ‘Give me a break.’
In a way, though, the boy was right. Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. But that’s just my opinion. ”Excerpted from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd(Another highly recommended book for your summer reading list! :)
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