05/27/2026
Rush. Not enough time to begin/work on/finish multiple tasks at-hand, preceeding us, following us. You get it. You've likely lived it at some point. You may wonder just when was the time that you did not. I hear similar sentiments in readings frequently.
Many women are 'givers'. In and of that, everyone else, including the dog, the cat, the neighbor's kids, get some of you first. You often are positioned to come in last at the end of the day, or, every day. For caregivers, this becomes an entirely, multi-layered issue.
I often read pieces by Jenna Kutcher, a self-made, digital marketing expert, and was taken by these words, "Somewhere along the line, work got rebranded as identity, and busy got rebranded as worth, and how are you turned into how busy are you, and that turned into a strange unspoken sport where the winner is the most depleted woman in the room and nobody can quite remember signing up to play." Ambush.
For the younger readers, you can still shift the game, decide to engage in a different sport, or, to not play at all. Granted this does not happen overnight for most. And it cannot, as resources of income, and of time are not often plentiful. As to the mature (in age!) readers, even as life, careers, etc. 'should be' winding down, we find ourselves ramping up. The 'reasons' are not the point.
The point is: we are entitled to rest, in whatever way 'rest' looks like... relaxing after pickleball, lounging on the porch reading, or an actual nap - all count. Letting go of commitments that no longer serve us. Duty. Duty-bound tasks are ones we have time to truly examine, and assess.
If we continue to look at 'rest' as something that, "I'll do that when I have time," guess what will happen? You know what will happen. It won't happen.
It is in rest that in the stillness, the depth of gratitude and appreciation for what life has presented, and about how we have responded to it, comes to full realization. We are entitled to that experience. Time after time.
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