Author:: Anne Helen Petersen Link:: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/you-are-beloved-and-worthy-of-rest Tags:#media/article culture culture of work identity
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- because you are human, you are beloved and worthy. rest is work, you need to give yourself the space to recover after you push yourself to the limits
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Even before the pandemic, we lacked these moments of completion, catharsis, and rest. That lack has only become more pronounced now. Any accomplishment or completion (or birthday, or celebration) is muted, quickly subsumed by the next concern. The low-hanging cloud of anxiety, despair, and precarity shades all attempts at rest with even more guilt than before. ^9Va7swsM1
- from How civilization broke our brains on Sunday scaries and why it’s indicative of something deeper. it’s what happened when people have little to no agency in what they want to pursue
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Viktor Frankl points out in Man’s Search for Meaning that a complete lack of tension or focus is actually bad for people: it was the people who felt they had something to live for, no matter what it was, who typically kept going despite extreme adversity. Too often, workers in capitalist society become so used to having The Job be their focus uber alles that without The Job they don’t know what to do with themselves. And so, many older men, in particular, die in their first year or so of retirement.
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