Life is a lot harder when tired. But it seems infinitely more important to focus on being kind when one is tired if others are also tired. Because a well-slept person can handle some rudeness from a clearly-tired person. But an exhausted one just can’t handle even the slightest meanness or rudeness, even if he can see that the one expressing it is also exhausted. Everything just hurts so much more easily and so much more. And, sometimes, we just hurt each other back and forth in immediate succession because we are both exhausted and can’t regulate at all anymore.
Being kind in the face of frustration while tired is very difficult to do. But God is giving me the chance to practice it again and again(!)… ::sigh
Thank you, God. Please, keep us safe and make us well. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2025
hannah ananas 