Simply..lethargy....

11/6/2020

..is creeping into my days.

Inertia, inactivity, inaction, slowness, torpor.

A pathological state of sleepiness, or deep unresponsiveness and inactivity.

Oh dear!

What to do?

12 Comments

Sheena

12/6/2020 12:15:56 am

It is becoming more of an effort to go and do jobs even ones I know I will enjoy and waking up in the morning is the most difficult task in the day. I wonder if it is the lack of physical contact especially for those of us living on our own? Maybe acknowledge the feeling and hold the thought that this too will pass. We must make the most of our bursts of energy and perhaps you are still recovering from your walk the other day!

Gwendoline

12/6/2020 02:41:05 am

I think you are quite right and this lassitude comes and goes. I find it tends to recede when I've had some face-to-face time (socially distanced still) with a friend. I also find it helpful to acknowledge that confusion arises and we can't avoid it but connection (however we can/choose to manage it) is the best way to live.

Freda

13/6/2020 01:56:28 am

Well said Gwendoline! Solitary confinement is the cruellest punishment. I long for more face to face contact.

Freda

13/6/2020 01:54:07 am

You are so right Sheena. The lack of physical contact is very distressing and it is hard not to take it personally when people veer away from you!! Surely it can't go on much longer? Take care. Am sending you a virtual hug but it's a poor substitute.

Lucille

12/6/2020 02:44:53 am

I must ask. What are you protecting under those bags?

I too wish to snap out of this torpor. We have a befuddled government and it’s catching.

Freda

13/6/2020 01:59:13 am

Protecting little seedlings from hot sunshine Lucille!
Befuddlement is not a happy condition is it? (Good word for BJ - heaven help us.)

cath

12/6/2020 03:34:58 am

Some thoughts, not necessarily conflicting with each other but different: if you look at energy as you would at the phases of the tide there is eb and flood, coming and going, filling and depleting. When being a 'doing person' the 'being person' could be judged by it as lethargic.

You are a gardener, a painter, a landscaper, a writer, I wonder what would appear when you see those gifts as dots to be connected. Does a bigger picture appear? Do you have all the dots that need to be connected for that bigger picture? Is it time to learn a new skill (or more) in order to be able to express to the full what you are here for?

In looking back I see you preparing for Venice in happy anticipation and, when the world changes, a growing doubt. You take the plunge and then days roll into weeks in an unrecognisable, unexpected Venice. As much as you enjoy the time spent mostly indoors there's always something outdoors threatening. Your expectations of "Venice", place, experience, sounds... all different. How does one process that? I could go on: staying there alone while waiting for the possibility to go home, staying in York in quarantaine .... how does one process that? However well you garden helped you with that, the world as we know it has changed and that awareness creates much unrest and sense of loss, of aloneness. I guess I am saying be kind to yourself, give yourself time as it is just your body telling you it is time to rest and replenish.

Freda

13/6/2020 02:05:15 am

Cath I am so touched by the thoughtfulness of all the commenters here.
I won't try to reply to this now, but will read and re-read it and enjoy the different perspective it gives me. What the situation highlights perhaps is my impatience! I want to get on with my interesting life!!
Thank you so much and stay well.

Grace

12/6/2020 01:31:00 pm

As I read Cath's last words, the term "body messages" came back to me. I think we sometimes have to acknowledge that it is ok not to be constantly doing and just allow ourselves to be still for a while.

Freda

13/6/2020 02:08:34 am

Yes! And I can do this for a day or even a week but months Grace? Aaargh - not doing well with this isolation. Hugs.

cathy

12/6/2020 01:51:35 pm

possibly rejuvenation time? My protestant background tells me down time isn't good. i'm finding out that's not quite true. embrace this.

Freda

13/6/2020 02:11:08 am

I am not finding my protestant church of Scotland background bery useful either! Trying. Very trying. x

Simply..lethargy....

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