Some days you just don’t feel right. Other days you realize, you’re not actually well.
So I found out late Friday that I’ve actually been sick – congestion, sore throat, and headaches kicked in pretty bad, followed by some pretty serious gastrointestinal upset most of the day Saturday. And, if I’m honest with myself, I haven’t felt great since Thanksgiving, when I also thought I might have been coming down with something and then decided that I had fought it off. More or less likely I have been fighting it off the whole time, and was simply not paying close enough attention to my body.
Depressingly, I’m wont to do that.
So I took it easy Saturday afternoon once I knew what was going on, cutting back on my errands and trying to give my body a chance to relax. I did the same thing the next morning (breaking the illusion of the retro blogging, I know) and slept in rather than go to church. By the midafternoon, I was feeling better.
Sometimes you need to go easy on yourself, but it also requires paying attention to what your body needs.
-the Centaur
Pictured: A pair of tomato sandwiches I made at home, which itself was taking a break from my normal Saturday hit-Panera-then-run-errands routine.
