Lazy days, for me, are a far cry from being unproductive! Are you kidding… while I might be resting in my favorite chair, I’m busy saving lives! If the world ever has a zombie outbreak, my services are going to be in high demand.
Do you even realize how much laziness I have to endure, just to keep my trigger fingers in good working condition? Are you going to know how to zombie proof your safehouses? I bet you never thought about that!
Then, there’s figuring out how and where to get food, fresh drinking water… and bullets! I’m forever in search of more bullets… oh, and repair kits. You’d be surprised how often your weapons need repairing.
Then there’s zombie proof clothing (that’s armor) and antibiotics! Don’t let yourselves get bit, or anything. I’d hate to have to shoot you!
Yep! You’ll all be thanking me…
Want a cookie?
Just kidding!
I’d at least pick the cookies up first, just to flick off anything unpleasant! I’m not a monster… just a survivor! Now eat your cookie, and don’t ask what’s in the ingredients…
This is rather confusing to my brain, first being told that it IS a lazy day… and then asking if one feels restful OR unproductive?
I wanna ask Google…
According to Oxford, the definition of lazy is “unwilling to work or use energy.” The example given was, “he was too lazy to cook”, so there’s that!
I suspect that if we go with the ACTUAL definition here, won’t we feel both rested AND unproductive? And, shouldn’t that be what we are aiming for?
Just askin…
Anyway, if you read my regular post this morning, you would already know that my brain is visiting a Nothing Box, today. I borrowed my husband’s box, since he doesn’t use it while he’s busy studying.
And yes, you could call today a LAZY day, so I have every intention of feeling both rested… AND unproductive!
Here, grab a cookie before you go. You didn’t think I would forget that? Not even on a lazy day…
I’m going to straight up answer this prompt, as it is an appropriate question and … there are no WHY’S in it.
My answer is, a bit of both!
If I am taking a lazy day after a stint of heavy writing, or something like that, it is an absolutely sublime feeling to sleep in until I Want to get out of bed… notice I said want and not need. Alarm clocks are tools of the devil, placed in our rooms to torment us with horrible songs… sending us frantically feeling around on the mattress to find the offending minstrel, and drown him!
Now, it’s a whole different story when I am trying to take a lazy day, when I know there are things I need to be doing, but am procrastinating for one reason or another. No matter how hard I try, the feeling of responsibility follows me through the day, constantly sending my brain these little PSSSTTTT reminders of the tasks I have been strategically avoiding.
The prompt question used the word unproductive as the negative side of a lazy day, and I think it is a really great word to use… in comparison to the Procrastinating word! Feeling unproductive is far less distressing to my brain, than admitting to the P word. I have always been one to take the bull by the horns as they say, diving headlong into tasks I feel are important. I often derive a sort of pleasure from successfully completing tasks that stretch me out of my comfort zone.
The toggle switch between rested and unproductive can sometimes be a loose one, giving us a day filled with rest mostly, but here and there are a moment or two of mental reminders that try to rob us of our rest. Maybe this is just me, who knows?
What I have come to understand about the thing that steals my rest on those lazy days… it’s fear! I know I said procrastination before, but I am going a little deeper to the cause of this mental state. My personal procrastination usually stems from a fear… a fear of failure, rejection, judgement from others, and a host of other insecurities that can try to assert themselves as a way to excuse the fear of Doing!
I find that the one day at a time thing works pretty well for this ole girl. I have adopted the attitude of the tortoise so to speak. There is a finish line and I aim to get there, in due time…
Til then I am going to take my lazy days and I will shout in the face of Unproductive, “La La La La… I’m not listening… La La La La!”
Journey With Me! 