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Reminder: You Don’t Have To Earn Rest.
These past few days of the new year have been good to me in terms of sleep. For those that do not know I have been an insomniac since birth, and I will probably suffer with this condition until I take my last breath. So I am always grateful for the very small windows of sleep my body randomly rewards me with. So I am taking advantage of this period of deep rest until the next full moon, when I will once again be wired and energized enough to stay up until 9 AM for consecutive nights at a time.
I woke up at 1 PM today, ready to tackle my Wednesday Pleasure List. I cheekily renamed it as such instead of calling it a to-do list like most normal people, as a to-do list just sounds downright sad and uninspiring. I slept very well and I thought that would be enough to keep me focused on the tasks at hand until I am due to lay my head on my pillows again.
Still, I am downright tired.
I noticed that guilt is setting in my mind, as there is no good reason for me to want to drift off to sleep again. I still have to exercise and do yoga, as stretching has become a permanent part of my nighttime routine. But my body doesn’t want to do a damn thing. I haven’t eaten yet and I am too lethargic to even take a bite of food, let alone work my weary body up into a sweat.
