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Going into the weekend, I had a mental list a mile long. Website updates. Blogging. Organizing. Laundry. Writing. Inventory. Even squeezing in some watch hours. The list was too long to begin with, and I knew that. Still, I got more than enough done.
And yet, any downtime I took felt like laziness. Like wasted time. Even though I know, objectively, that I do more than enough.
The Imaginary Clock
That voice does not come from nowhere. It comes from an imaginary clock. The timelines we inherit from society, from family, from peers, or the markers we quietly create for ourselves.
Whether you are in your twenties setting out against the world, in your thirties submerged in it, or older with more lived data to analyze it, the struggle with timelines never fully goes away. It might quiet down, but it lingers.
Productivity Isn’t the Same as Worth
Somewhere along the way, productivity got tangled up with self-worth. Rest starts to feel undeserved. Pauses feel suspicious. Doing enough still does not feel like enough when the goalposts keep moving.
Let the Rest Wait
Do what you can. Let the rest wait until you are able. Not because the work does not matter, but because you do. Rest is not the opposite of progress. It is part of it.
Your Take
What makes rest feel uncomfortable for you.
Whose timeline are you measuring yourself against.
What would change if you trusted that what you did was enough.
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