When Rest Is Not Laziness 🌿
Some days, you’re not lazy. 🌙
You’re just mentally tired.
The kind of tired that doesn’t show,
the kind that lives quietly between thoughts,
while the world keeps asking you to move faster. 🍃
We call it procrastination,
but sometimes it’s a mind asking for mercy. 🤍
*When did you last rest without feeling guilty?
*When did you last check in with yourself—honestly?
*Are you offering yourself the same patience you give others? 🌱
Healing is subtle.
Growth is quiet.
And some days, progress looks like choosing gentleness. ✨
If this speaks to you—
*what has your mind been carrying lately? 💭
@fancyWriting7274
My mind is looking for some rest but my husband and I have dead lines and doctors appointments to keep, taxes coming due as well as church activities and numerous other things like family gatherings. We're 78 years old and it's difficult for us to believe how much we've slowed down. Our batting average isn't as good as it once was. We say that we're spoiled and it seems that we're lazy at times which works on my guilt, not my husband's since he manages guilt better than I do. He just let's it go and hopes to do better.
@gentlePlane4577 Thank you for sharing this so honestly. It sounds like your mind is asking for rest while life keeps asking for movement — and that tension alone can be exhausting. Slowing down isn’t laziness; it’s the body asking for kindness. Your husband’s way of letting guilt go feels like a quiet wisdom, and yours shows how deeply you still care. If rest didn’t come with guilt, what do you think it would give back to you? 🌿
@fancyWriting7274 I agree with you!!
Luv da
Totally agree with you 🌷
@fancyWriting7274
I completely agree. Sometimes we need to press that reset button ☺️
I can relate to this. Life can be busy and overwhelming at times. Slowing down to rest is important, but it’s difficult to find time. Finances is a huge stressor at the moment, and I feel that I’m always thinking about bills. Life overall is challenging lately. Working during the week, making sure I perfect my work load without getting behind. The burnout after the week. Being sure everything is flowing how it should. I feel that handling everything on my own as well as sudden problems that arise, such as my car maintenance. Being able to afford those problems. Maintaining good friendships takes special energy. Life is simply overwhelming and can be sometimes depressing. Just taking the full load on my own.
@fancyWriting7274 Times I definetly dont feel guilty—is when I am really sick and just need some rest to help myself to recuperate or if I had a long stressful week I may go to sleep early on Friday night and crash there til Sunday when its time to head for ,***. Fortunatly it doesnt happen too much although as I get older theres times I may also need a mini nap to refresh myself so I can carry out the rest of the day to do what I need get accomplished.
@fancyWriting7274 i agree with you, sometimes i feel like i'm sleepy all the time even when i got enough rest 😅
@hopefulencounter
I had been seen ur post around community but i guess u were active lately?? ik we never chat before eachother but i used to ur post around forum's 😊. I just want cheak in on u... is everything okay Buddy?? ❤️
Please NVM, if i made feel any discomfort, I'm here just out of concern 😊..!! hope u can get me ✨.
Hugs 🤗
@Ailuraphilelove8tear9 hi i've been feeling not so fine lately 😞
@hopefulencounter
Aww, sweetie!! i guessed it, I'm really sorry to hear that 😔. what's going on to u, dear???? 😭
sending lots of love and embrace ur way ❤️
Warm hugs 💕
@Ailuraphilelove8tear9 i feel bad for leavin my old friends but it's just that i no longer have the energy to be around them anymore, and i realized sometimes even good friends just suddenly don't talk anymore so this time i wanna leave them behind.
thanks for hearing my story
@fancyWriting7274
That feel like a gentle reminder, Tysm so much for sharing 😊 i really needed to hear that today ❤️. it's relatable...!!:)
Sending lots of love and happiness ur way 💞
Hugs 🤗
