Everyone should step back for a while, not just to escape work or the rat-race, but to rediscover oneself.
Yes, money is necessary for having a certain standard of living. But it isn't everything. You may be a wealthy workaholic but be much poorer for it in the sense that you will not have experienced all the world has to offer...the things that money can't buy...time for one.
Good relationships cannot be enriched within a work-work and more work ethic. One must sometimes distance oneself to reconnect with the soul.
Some people become so focused on work that winding down can be almost impossible.
My father was so used to being stretched and stressed at work that when it came to Sunday, his day at home with the family, he couldn't switch off and relax...in his head he was already planning the next week's schedule. He suffered tremendous migraines when he should have been enjoying time off.
Work, work, work killed everything including him in the end. His work became a means of escaping family life because he had forgotten how to connect with us.