Feeling tired?

What do you do when feeling tired? Restless? In need of a break?

I did not research the correlation between feeling drained emotionally and the answer to the question above. But, in my own experience, it is quite high.

I find this analogy quite useful. When the batteries of the TV remote are draining, do you immediately replace them? Probably not. You continue to press the buttons until you can change the channel. Or you take the batteries off and put them on again. And it works. For a limited time.

Isn’t that what we do with ourselves? We continue to push through. One more day. One more week. One more month. Until we can’t push any other second. Until we’re 100% drained, emotionally.

Sadly, we can’t (yet) replace ourselves with another fully charged human being, just like we do with the TV remote. We have to wait until our battery is full again. But, in the meanwhile, we feel useless and bored.

Wouldn’t it be smarter to take a short break, whenever tired?

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

― John Lubbock