[hellohowareu]

I agree. I think as long as you have an acceptable degree of financial security, that it is very healthy to face new challenges.

As someone who has taken a few sabbaticals--including leaving an apartment to live in a tent for months at a time in order to reduce expenses while traveling-- the fear, I think, of a sabbatical, is a fear of two things:

1. leaving comfort

2. facing the unknown

Both of these are growth experiences. You'll learn what you can live without, and you'll learn various new things through new experiences with the people you meet, new ideas you develop, and beautiful new places & experience you have.