Some people treat rest like it’s dessert. You only get it if you’ve eaten your vegetables, cleared your inbox, fixed your soul, walked the dog, and saved the world twice.
And even then—maybe—you’re allowed to sit down. For ten minutes. As a treat.
But let me be clear: rest is not a gold star for productivity. It is not a luxury for the burnout elite. Rest is maintenance. It’s brushing your emotional teeth. It’s changing the oil in your overworked soul.
I’ve seen the judgment in people’s faces when I say I’m taking a nap or—heaven forbid—just doing nothing. They look at me like I’ve stolen time from the gods.
But guess what? I don’t need to perform exhaustion to prove I’m worthy of existing. I don’t need to collapse to earn a moment of peace. And neither do you.
Note to self: “Rest is not a reward. It’s how you keep from becoming a cautionary tale.”
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psychologistmimi 
“Rest is not a reward. It’s how you
keep from becoming a cautionary tale.”
Indeed Wise Words to Never Forget By Dear Miriam
If We Do Not Rest We Do Not Re-Create And Re-Generate
As It’s Very True i’ve Already Done Not Only the ‘Cautionary Tale’
Yet the Warning
Reality too For
How Many
Rings Far
Beyond What
Is Reported in
“Dante’s Hell” if We
Go Without Rest Fail
to Re-Create and Re-Generate
Leaving the Play That the Rest of Nature
Naturally Does in Basic R&R Of Animal
Homeostasis in Rest and Re-Cuperation
For If We Fail to Oil the Bearings Of Our
Wheels The Tread May Gradually Come
Off Our Lifelong Tires WHere the Only
Solution in This Barren Wheel Living
Death May Be Long Days of Bed
Rest And Gradual Re-Tiring
Away From the
Living Dead
Yep Been There
Done that with 19 Medical
Disorders Including the Worst
Pain Known to Humankind Type
Two Trigeminal Neuralgia Wake to
Sleep Shut-In For 66 Months that in mY
Case No Drug Would Touch Like a Dentist
Drill in my Right Eye and Ear Without Novocaine
That Yes Came From Work Related Stress Ranging
From Chronic to Acute Fight or Flight Stress in the
Last 2 Years of 11 Years of Intense Stress Yet of Course
On the Autism Spectrum a Propensity Toward ‘Autism Burn-Out’
Made me Somewhat of a “Canary in a Coal/Cold Mine/Mind of Course
Making it Also Good
News as i Was Able
To Rise from the Ashes
of That Real Hell to a Heaven
Within that is Every Much A Reality too
Key i Keep My Life in Balance Now Always
Sweet Spot FLoWinG Tween Anxiety and Apathy Now
Yet of Course Not Everyone is Fortunate Enough to Retire
Early Financially Independent in These Real Life Scenarios
Yes Cautionary and Warning Tales for Real too True Not Every one
Gets to Do a Meditative Flowing Contemplating Free Dance And Song
Practically
From Wake to
Sleep to Staycation
in the Better Place Now
Yet Still Relatively Speaking
From a Prognosis of Many Doctors
For No Recovery at All in my Case
They Called it A Real Life Miracle
Yet i Ain’t Looking to Be Any
Hypocritical
Saint Leaving
Anyone Out
of the Giving
Sharing Caring
Healing Solution
For a Real Heaven
Within on Earth Now
Far Beyond Any Requirements
Alone of Any One So-Called Religion
Or Prophet as Reality is as Good as Life Gets Now…
-Life is Good
iN This Place
Now THere
is No Past
or Future
Just the
‘Staycation’
New Now For Real…
Yes in ‘The Better Place’..:)
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