You Don't Know How to Rest Without Feeling Useless
Sit down in the middle of the day with nothing to do, and notice what happens in your body. Within a minute or two, something starts to itch — a low hum of I should be doing something — and before you've even decided to, you're reaching for your phone or a task or any small reason to get back up. You'd call it being productive, but if you're honest, it isn't drive that moved you. It's discomfort. The stillness itself is what you couldn't sit in. That's the tell. Somewhere along the way, you stopped being able to rest without feeling like you were failing at something. The exhaustion you can't put down You're tired in a way that ordinary tiredness doesn't explain — the kind that's already sitting on your chest when you wake up, that a good night's sleep never quite lifts. It doesn't come from doing too much on any single day so much as from never fully stopping, from a mind and a body that stay switched on even when there's ...
