There is no use to life. We value life for its beauty, exuberance, profoundness, and intensity, not for its usefulness.

You need to look at why you want a break from work. If you were doing something that you truly care about, would you want a break?

Those who want to leave footprints will never fly.

Whether it is happiness or unhappiness, pain or pleasure, agony or ecstasy, essentially it happens from within.  

Whatever you have to do right now, do it with absolute involvement. Only then will you know the sweetness of what it means to be conscious.