Before you read this, take a moment to breathe. Really -it's fine-just take one small moment to put all of your thoughts and concerns in a box. Now, lock up.
Give yourself a few seconds to just breathe. Breathe freely without thinking. Turn off all the negative energy. You're tired-and you know what? That's okay.
There's a common misconception that people always have to be ready to face anything life throws at us; we be prepared to always feel fully energized, efficient, ready and on-the-go. This framework is impossible to achieve without at least ten coffees a day, and you don't need that.
Society also expects us to master at anything we do. And if you find that something's not for you personally, people consider you a failure in that field. I want you to know that isn't true.
It's time to realize that you don't always need to be perfect, you don't always have to complete all your desired tasks in a single day, and you don't need to feel fully-energized at every second of your life.
People are busy. More and more we find ourselves promising our time for you to our work, our friends and us. And although it's okay to wish to share your energy with others, it isn't okay to forget about yourself.
We push ourselves into situations that do not truly make us happy, and that exhausts us more. Then we feel stuck in a place in our life just because we're likely to be there; we expect ourselves to ride it out and hope that something better can come along. So we force ourselves to stay put and exhaust our mind every single day we continue to push in a direction that feels so wrong.
How about going for a path that feels suitable for once?
We forget to take a moment to breathe, and then we endlessly work ourselves until we break up, become miserable and completely exhausted. The issue with this is that others do not understand. Everyone’s so completely consumed with their own personal lives that they forget to try and understand the hecticness of yours. So when you feel tired and cranky, people villainize you since you don’t harness the same energy that the 10-coffee-a-day drinkers produce.
I would like you to know that I know you feel tired, and that's okay.
If you've given your energy away to so many different areas that you feel tired, miserable, depressed, anything-it's okay. You can absolutely feel whatever way you want. You have a right to feel any emotion that comes up to you in the time.
Don't allow the world tell you that you can't be tired. Whether you're a worker, a parent, a child or anyone, you're in your every right to feel tired.
If you won't want to talk to anyone, if you want to be miserable, if you want to feel sad, or if you wish to just cuddle up with your pet and watch Netflix alone, it's fine. Go ahead. This is how you regenerate.
You need to regenerate, and however you choose to do that is your choice. So when someone questions you based on how you're acting, don't let it tire you further. When you're in a situation that isn't bringing out the most positive, energetic version of you, don't force you to ultimately stay.
And when you're tired, damnit, you're able to be tired, and that's okay.
