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Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby Netherrealmer » 27 May 2025, 09:33

Sometimes It’s Not Lazy to Just Laze Around
(Or: How Doing Nothing Might Save You from a Full-Blown Mental Meltdown)

In a world that worships productivity like a golden calf, resting is treated like blasphemy. If you're not grinding, hustling, or "rising and grinding," are you even alive? According to society, if you're not working 12 hours a day and training for a triathlon on your lunch break, you might as well be dead weight. But here's a little secret they don’t want you to know: sometimes, it's not lazy to just laze around. Sometimes, lying motionless on the couch like a starfish in a coma is exactly what your brain and body need to avoid spontaneously combusting.

Let’s be honest: most of us are chronically overworked, underslept, and one bad email away from an existential crisis. So when you wake up feeling like you've been hit by a truck full of unpaid bills, and all you want to do is stay in bed like a Victorian woman recovering from “the vapors,” maybe that's your body’s polite way of screaming, “Hey buddy, we’re dying here.”

We tend to ignore the signs—those subtle hints like muscle fatigue, emotional numbness, or the fact that you've started crying every time you see a dog commercial. That’s not laziness. That’s your body waving a white flag before it quits and leaves you wandering around Target in pajama pants, whispering your social security number to a can of soup.

Rest isn't the enemy; it’s the emergency brake before you crash into the wall of burnout going 90 mph. There’s a vast, important difference between being lazy and being exhausted. Laziness is choosing Netflix over responsibility for the 37th day in a row. Exhaustion is your body trying to stage a coup because it's been run like a sweatshop in a coal mine.

People talk about self-care like it’s a luxury—spa days, overpriced candles, and smoothies with ingredients you can’t pronounce. But real self-care? Sometimes it’s just letting yourself lie face-down on the floor for an hour while the ceiling fan spins existential dread into the air. And that’s okay. That’s healing.

This modern obsession with always being “on” is a trap. Capitalism wants you to feel guilty for resting because well-rested people might start asking questions like, “Why am I working myself to death so Jeff Bezos can buy another yacht?” The moment you start valuing your well-being over your productivity, you become a little less controllable—and a lot more human.

We only get one body (unless you believe in reincarnation, in which case, maybe your next one will come with less back pain). This one has to carry you through everything: work, relationships, your inevitable quarter-life crisis. If you treat it like a machine, don’t be surprised when it blue-screens mid-sentence.

So go ahead—take that nap. Stare at the wall. Watch garbage TV and let your brain dribble out your ears for a few hours. If anyone calls you lazy, just smile and tell them you’re practicing radical self-preservation. Because sometimes, doing absolutely nothing is the most productive—and most rebellious—thing you can do.

Rest isn’t laziness. It’s love in action. Or at the very least, it’s you not dying early from stress-induced spontaneous combustion. Either way, it’s a win.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby Kerryjoy12 » 27 May 2025, 13:16

I've discovered that sometimes the best thing I can do for myself is to do nothing at all. I now view rest as survival rather than weakness after I reach that wall of exhaustion. Trying to meet unachievable productivity goals has caused me to burn out before, leaving me exhausted, numb, and questioning everything. I now give in to the temptation to simply lie down and gaze at the ceiling. It's self-respect, not laziness. I'm worthy of guilt-free recharge. I can work better, think more clearly, and maintain my composure when I get enough sleep. I've come to the realization that sometimes saying "no" to hustle culture means saying "yes" to myself.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby cmoneyspinner » 27 May 2025, 20:53

Netherrealmer wrote:Sometimes It’s Not Lazy to Just Laze Around


Indeed. It took me a while to learn that, but now I do it and I don't feel guilty. :D
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby Jem Smith » 14 Jun 2025, 15:07

Thank you. I've been stressed out, and I just sat and watched the old X-Men Cartoon for 2 hours, just because. It was good to zone out for a bit.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby kat82 » 15 Jun 2025, 05:54

Rested while watching the "3 brothers regretted after I leftfamily". My moods are up again.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby ptrikha21 » 15 Jun 2025, 10:03

The collaboration is what is increasing day by day.

Yes, fears of AI taking over everything is real and much talked about.

Yet if done properly, we would see much more positive effects of this collaboration as we move forward.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby eldavis » 22 Jun 2025, 04:08

There was a time when i use to think resting made me look weak or lazy, like am missing out on so much i needed to do, but overtime i came to realize that resting is extremely important and needed.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby nakitakona » 22 Jun 2025, 07:30

Practically to take a rest isn't a form of laziness. Thus a person who is resting isn't lazy. He's regaining back his tired life.

Rest is making your body to recover your energy lost while working or doing some menial, physical or mental task.

Our body isn't a machijne to endure laborsome job. It has limit to do things for it gets tired or burnout after hard and difficult time to get things done.

In short, resting is recovery and not laziness.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby kat82 » 21 Sep 2025, 13:14

ptrikha21 wrote:The collaboration is what is increasing day by day.

Yes, fears of AI taking over everything is real and much talked about.

Yet if done properly, we would see much more positive effects of this collaboration as we move forward.
AI is making many live in fear. The fear to be fired from work etc. no resting.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby Fergal » 23 Sep 2025, 05:47

kat82 wrote:AI is making many live in fear. The fear to be fired from work etc. no resting.

Probably the best way to do that is to learn how to use AI and figure out how you can do better work with the assistance of AI. That way you become more productive and your skills remain current.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby kat82 » 23 Sep 2025, 10:33

Fergal wrote:Probably the best way to do that is to learn how to use AI and figure out how you can do better work with the assistance of AI. That way you become more productive and your skills remain current.
I get you. Learning how to use AI productively and positively can do magic.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby ptrikha21 » 28 Sep 2025, 12:38

nakitakona wrote:Practically to take a rest isn't a form of laziness. Thus a person who is resting isn't lazy. He's regaining back his tired life.
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In short, resting is recovery and not laziness.


I agree proper rest has its own importance.
Even Medical experts would vouch for that!
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby eldavis » 29 Sep 2025, 11:01

I had been sick for awhile now, i was still worried about work and most of my online gigs, but having proper rest really helped me a lot.
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Re: Its not lazy to re rest sometimes

Postby bestwriter » 02 Oct 2025, 23:46

My working life was filled with so called lazy moments. We were given time to relax. I am not a workaholic anyway I love 'wasting' time :D
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