How do you unwind after a demanding day?

Being a couch potato, binge watching is fun but not relaxing because I know I only get half an hour. I usually stay up later than I should and end up regretting it the next day. Boo! Below: I wrote a rough poem. I don’t know if I can 100 percent relate to all my words because I have learned to relax in the last year but this was definitely my mindset for a good ten years. I feel like if I had the talent, I would be a pop star or a broadway star because I love the grind. I love to work but when I get to work on something that I am passionate about, it doesn’t feel like work. It feels like fun. It feels like I am the luckiest girl in the world. It feels like a blessing and a privilege. There is this high that comes along with it.

WHAT IS SLOWING DOWN

To the average person, my days can look insane.

No time to breathe. No time to unwind.

It is go go go.

Even going to bed becomes a chore.

If I don’t get X amount of hours of sleep them I won’t be in tip top shape for tomorrow schedule.

It has been a constant go since I can remember.

Mornings to nights.

Rare moments where I get to slow down.

I have always felt like I was behind and if I stopped I would never be able to catch up.

At some point, I got ahead of the game

But I couldn’t stop.

I enjoyed the hustle and bustle.

More than that everyday felt like an opportunity to reach my dreams

How can I stop when from the moment we are born, we are dying

darling?

I can’t stop.

First generation doesn’t get to stop,

We keep running and grinding but then the next generation will tell us

We are crazy.

Slow down. Enjoy the day they will say.

But how do I tell them that they get to slow down and enjoy the day

Because I spent my entire existence running

And I don’t know how to stop.

What a privilege to slow down..

What a privilege to keep grinding.

What a privilege to have that embedded in my DNA.

So how do I unwind after a demanding day?

By thinking about what is next. That is how I unwind.

XOXO

Frsh

P.S. So how do you unwind?