The Luxury of Rest

Rest is something I crave, I don’t get to rest every time but whenever I do I make sure I have enough rest.

If I am being given 29 hours instead of 24 hours as the weekly prompt asked, I will make sure I get enough rest. No noise, no disturbance, no phone just me and my bed till whenever the extra hours end.

I choose rest over every other activity because it’s something I wish I could do every day but work keeps getting in the way of me achieving this.

If I am not working, I am either preparing for one exam or another and it goes on and on. Speaking of exams, I just finished one recently and even though I have rested I feel like I need to rest some more. I read so much for those exams that it feels like I have read for my future already😅

I want to rest to a point where I have no energy to rest anymore, so that extra 5 hours will do me a lot of good, and thinking about these extra hours right now I wish it could be possible to really have them.

When I was younger I wouldn’t have hesitated to pick playing video games over resting but now that I am much older I know better. Resting comes first before anything.

Rest is very important and it isn’t about being lazy or being unproductive. It is about taking a break from everything and everyone to rejuvenate. It’s a good thing and we all need rest whether we like it or not.

When I see people take breaks to rest and come back when they are refreshed I am always happy for them as they don’t know how lucky they are. Some of us can only crave it.

I’m not so much of a workaholic but I know I do not get the desired rest that I want. I have a very strict schedule making it difficult for me to get adequate rest or do anything out of the moment.

I don’t know if I am the only one who feels that 24 hours ends so fast before you are able to get anything done. You end up having to push the remaining tasks of the day to the next day and this continues to happen. Having 29 hours would be cool and very helpful to me.

While I wait for such an opportunity to have some extra hours, in the meantime I will try to be intentional about having adequate rest. I am not getting any younger, I need to rest enough so I don’t breakdown.

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