A week before I was scheduled to dog sit for my best friend, I got hit with a serious case of burn out, an issue that I’ve discussed in recent blog posts.

That burn out has lasted, give or take, a month at this point. And I’ve decided…I’m gonna lean the f in.

Now, burn out and lazy are two completely different things. One is a mental health issue after periods of prolonged stress, the other is having things to do but lacking the motivation and/or discipline to do them. I get it. Burn out does not in any way mean someone is lazy.

But let me make a case for being “lazy” when in the throes of burn out.

Sometimes, you just have to sit around and do absolutely nothing.

And sometimes, you have to give yourself no more than one thing to do in a day.

And sometimes, you need days that are filled with a mix of nothing and fun things and responsibility.

The case for “laziness”, in my experience, is that eventually, your brain and body heal, and you start to go, “Hm…a walk sounds nice.” “Maybe I’ll sit outside with a book.” Allowing yourself to be lazy creates space to gently return to the land of the living.

There is also a case to be made for active burn out, i.e. participating in activities you enjoy and not overburdening yourself with stress.

This blog post kind of feels like it’s all over the place. Probably because my thoughts right now are all over the place. Ha. Sorry about that.

But, in the spirit of full transparency, I wanted to post something to my blog but didn’t necessarily have the bandwidth to make my writing cohesive. I love writing this blog. It gives my thoughts a space to live outside of my journal, which I enjoy. However, recently, I haven’t really felt like…well… talking.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling and will be doing a lot of traveling throughout May. I’ve been toiling around in my garden. And deep cleaning the house.

I guess when I say I’ve been lazy and am currently embracing my lazy era, I mean that there are a couple of projects I’ve put on pause since April, and that pause has given me some guilt.

And that guilt is the perfect catalyst to practice my word of 2025, which is TRUST.

I’m leaning into my “lazy” era because I trust that at some point I will get back to those projects and complete them.

I trust that no matter whether I take those projects fast or slow, I will see them through.

I trust that just because I don’t feel like working on those projects right now doesn’t mean that I have lost the interest or motivation I had going into them.

I trust that at some point, my “lazy” era will end and a new one will begin.

I have a whole life’s worth of evidence to prove it. : )

Until next week, friends.