Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?
Picture it…Sarah’s house…2025. October 17th to be exact. It’s day 2 of her much needed vacation. It’s 59 degrees outside, and 60 somethin’ degrees inside. She and her husband have given in and turned on the heat. She is reclined on the couch wrapped up in her new thick, fluffy sweater and her legs are covered in the flannel blanket she’s had since she was 10.
This is the beginning of a very lazy day. She and her husband took a 3-hour drive to the one and only Ikea in her state yesterday. They bought a 6th bookshelf for their house since they keep buying more books than they have space for. At some point today, the organization nerd in her is going to take over and she’ll probably reorganize their books. Last night, after putting the shelf together, her husband put random books on the shelf in a haphazard order. Completely unacceptable in Sarah’s mind.
Today, she might also do a load of laundry. Maybe. There’s laundry to be done. Dishes need to be washed too. The fact that they bought another set of silverware from Ikea to match the two sets they already have indicates their slowness in washing dishes. Running out of clean silverware happens sometimes.
There’s things to do, and she might get to it today. Or she might not. She has a book next to her on the couch because she’s pretty sure she’s going to recline completely and read for a while once she’s done writing this post.
If she maintains her laziness today and doesn’t get to the laundry, dishes, or book organizing, she will still consider today a good day. She may have been unproductive on the necessary tasks, but she will have been extremely productive on resting. Which, in her mind, is exactly what vacations are for.
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