Wow, sounds terrible but it does ring a bell, doesn’t it? Anyways, there is simply a great deal of pressure from the work place, what with actual work to complete and deadlines to meet, and relationships to keep – bosses to please, competitor colleagues to beat, etc and so forth.
This is why today’s work force treasure vacation so much. To have a few days off allows them to get away from the high-pressure situations at work and allow them to decompress – to relax and shed the pressure like a dirty clothes.
That’s what it means when the speaker says he/she wants to go home and bake cookies in order to decompress. To the speaker, baking cookies is a form of leisure because it allows him/her to focus on the cookies instead of their work and office, thus allowing their mind to rest, to relax, to chill and above all, to heal.
And hopefully after the cookies are ready, their stress from work is gone. Their muscles are no longer stiff. Their nerves are at ease. And they are truly decompressed, refreshed and raring to go.
Ready to march into the office and fight for another day.
Well, perhaps not quite ready for that yet. Not so soon, at any rate.
Alright, let’s all decompress a bit further for now by examining media examples of people who all want to decompress in one way or another:
1. Teri Jackson, a single mother who grew up in Southwest Austin, was deployed to Iraq in March 2004, leaving behind her sons, then 11 and 8 years old. As soon as she got to the barren trailer in Balad that would serve as her living quarters for the next year, she decorated it with photos of her children and cheery memories of home.
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