Like being in The Matrix￼

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

You wake up not feeling like you want to go to school, work, the gym, or attend some responsibility. How do you know when you should give yourself a break vs. enforce discipline?

There’s a line in the 1999 movie The Matrix, just before Morpheus explains the truth about The Matrix and the real world to Neo, he says “unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is. They have to experience it for themselves“. This line can apply to a lot of things in life – including knowing when to power through and knowing when to give yourself a break

Leave it to me to make a 26 year-old pop culture reference…

In response to today’s prompt, I don’t know if I ever have any telltale signs of when I need to either keep pushing myself or take a break and administer self-care. I just feel it. There are some days where I am legitimately sore and where it hurts to walk. On those days, I realize that I probably should skip the gym for the day.

That’s an example of self-care. And while it’s commendable and maybe even honorable to push through pain push through adversity, there are times where you have to be sure that you’re taking proper care of yourself. It’s like the difference between a baseball player playing hurt versus a baseball player playing with an injury. One you need to push through. The other, you have to give yourself a break.

There’s this thing that we do in society today; we push ourselves well past our breaking points. I’m not sure why this is. It’s like we think that running ourselves into the ground is some sort of badge of honor Expressions like “no days off” or “I’ll have time to sleep when I’m dead“ are very cute and sound inspiring. However, under the right circumstances, they can lead to an early grave.

However, if it’s just a day where I’m being a little cranky and saying “i don’t feel like working out right now“ those are the days in which I need to push myself. That really is a thin line between persistence and self-destruction. It’s important to know the difference.

But as to how I know the difference, or how I know when to draw that proverbial line? Then I cannot say. It’s just something I know within me. it really is like being a character in the matrix. No one can tell you what it is. You just have to know it for yourself.

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Like being in The Matrix￼

You wake up not feeling like you want to go to school, work, the gym, or attend some responsibility. How do you know when you should give yourself a break vs. enforce discipline?

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