You're Not Lazy!

 

               You’re Not Lazy — You’re Carrying Too Much

    If you’ve been calling yourself lazy lately, pause for a moment.

Lazy doesn’t feel like this.

Lazy doesn’t feel like wanting to do things but having no energy left.

Lazy doesn’t feel like your brain never shuts off, even when your body does.

Lazy doesn’t feel like guilt for resting.

What you’re feeling is weight.

You’ve been carrying responsibilities, emotions, expectations, memories, and survival instincts for a long time. Some of it is visible. Most of it isn’t.

You still show up.
You still care.
You still try.

That alone tells me you’re not lazy.

You’re overloaded.

When your nervous system has been in “keep going” mode for too long, your body eventually pulls the emergency brake. Motivation drops. Focus disappears. Simple tasks feel impossible. And instead of asking, “What am I carrying?” you ask, “What’s wrong with me?”

Nothing is wrong with you.

Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like scrolling instead of starting. Sitting instead of moving. Needing more rest than you think you’re allowed to have.

Especially if you’re the kind of person who:

• Was strong at a young age

• Had to grow up fast

• Learned to put your needs last

• Became the dependable one

Your exhaustion makes sense.

You weren’t built to carry everything forever.

And here’s the part no one says out loud:
Rest isn’t a reward for productivity. It’s a requirement for being human.

You don’t need to “get it together.”
You don’t need more discipline.
You don’t need to shame yourself into motion.

You need gentleness.
You need space to set something down.
You need permission to stop treating exhaustion like a personal failure.

If today all you can do is breathe and be, that’s enough.
If your pace looks slower than it used to, that doesn’t mean you’re falling behind — it means you’re healing.

You are not lazy.
You are carrying too much.

And here, you don’t have to carry it alone.

 Stay a while.