This post is for all of us! If you ignore then you are already a Superman so not to worry, you can already handle every pressure from life and you already have the ability to balance work and rest most likely.
Rest used to be natural but now it feels like something people have to justify, you don’t just say you are tired and you need to go to rest, you will be questioned and you have to answer why you’re taking a break or some time off. Times have changed and still the world is evolving, we are not even at the end of the world, we are not there yet so yes we should encourage rest and give ourselves some time to do so especially when we are tired.
If you’re not doing something productive it starts to feel like you’re wasting time and for me I think that’s the perfect time to rest, we shouldn’t be kept in loops 🔁 to perform continuous and consistent actions like we are robots. Humans live on blood and we need rest or good amount of rest to be replenished. Asides the 4-6 hours of average sleep that we get everyday, we still need to rest inbetween the day if possible.
Nowadays it’s harder to rest or to naturally find people resting especially without being criticized or having to pay for it. Is it technology, social media or civilization and modernization that told us to always be busy? The saying of “active 24/7” has somehow changed our mentality. Who says we lose when we sleep? Come on! We gain more life more strength and more brain power when we wake up and that is productivity, productivity is also money, so please 🙏 sleep! Rest! Take a break! You are not lazy but uou are very sensitive to your surroundings and body, that understanding helps us kill as many pressure as possible and keeps us going.
Some people think the more time we spend working and staying awake matters more but I don’t blame them, the shift came from the way hustle culture is shaping people’s mindset and it is rapidly influenced by our internet and social media.
Everywhere you look someone is working, building and achieving something especially when they always post progress levels and stages online so when we see it we feel pressured like we are not doing anything, forgetting that if we post our lives online as well too others would see the progress. Who tells you that when you pause you’re falling behind?
Thats the devil speaking and you need to rebuke him!
Have you taken your time to think about what the other person does when they are not on the internet posting milestones? They took so many naps inbetween work and enough rest! So we are just stuck with illusion and unnecessary self pressure. You didn’t kill any one but rest and that doesn’t make you LAZY.
The truth is that rest and laziness are not the same thing at all they don’t even have same qualities, rest is recovery while laziness is a constant habit that doesn’t require you to rest because you have bee doing nothing. Rest is a refill and It’s what allows you to function properly.
Laziness is avoidance, laziness is zero activity but the problem is that people are mixing both together, thinking rest is for lazy people or you rest because you feel or are lazy.
When you don’t rest properly your work and mind suffers it anyway, like I told you earlier rest makes us more productive, I am not sure about you but I know that for myself and it’s a fact. Dont you know that your mind gets tired and your focus drops? Yes it happens when you are too active for a long period of time and when that happens simple tasks feel very heavy for you to carry out.
I will tell you a secret for free now, which is: Real productivity includes knowing when to stop. Quote me anywhere.
Sometimes doing nothing is exactly what your body and mind need, not something to feel guilty about.
Thank you for reading, I hope you take some time out to rest today or immediately after reading this post.
Cheers 🥂 to productivity.