On my most stressful days, I dream about doing nothing. Just watching TV and not feeling guilty about it. But anytime I get the opportunity I don't take it. Instead, I do something productive in some shape or form and fill my day with doing stuff instead of not doing stuff. Because I feel guilty not being productive.
I feel like that's a generation thing that is probably shared by too many other millennials.
Maybe it's because we grew up getting told to do stuff constantly and weren't the generation that grew up with technology. As older kids and into adulthood, older generations tell us we are the lazy generation. Except the thing is, we aren't (but that's a whole other article for another day).
But it's hard to do nothing. It's hard to not be productive for a day. It's hard to just watch a TV show when you have a million tasks that need to be finished.
It's hard for me because the saying of living every day like it's your last and live every day to the fullest really made me feel like I waste days and hours and minutes. So anytime I'm doing something "wastefully" I don't feel relaxed or happy.
If you're like me, it's OK to do nothing.
It's okay to stay in bed on the weekends and watch YouTube. You aren't lazy. You don't have to be productive every minute of every day. And if you are really like me it's not wasteful if watching TV helps you de-stress, if reading for hours makes you happy, or if playing on your phone helps you get through the day. What matters is that it helps you in some way.
So, take a well-deserved break because you work hard and you crush everything you do.