Slow Day
I have had a really slow day today. As a matter of fact, I am still having a really slow day.
Some people might call it lack of motivation, others might call it "having brain fog," and some might even call it outright being lazy. The end result is the same, regardless. I end up sitting here watching the moving hands of time on the clock, debating quietly to myself whether I should get up and do something... and each time finding that the amount of effort required to get started on something new is just more than I am capable of putting forth, at least in this moment.
Unless you have actually had this kind of experience it's unlikely that you can truly understand how it feels. You genuinely want to do something, but the neurochemistry between the brain and the body has been disconnected.
It's easy to jump to the conclusion that a slow day is by definition a bad thing, but I don't see it as such. I see it more as an opportunity to "do nothing" and thereby give my brain a chance to reset. As most people who read this page know, I'm no fan of so-called grind culture.
I really believe that all of us would benefit from periodically having a nothing day, which doesn't mean a day where you just try to catch up with all the things you otherwise don't have time for but a true nothing day.
It's not surprising that many of us end up feeling like we need more down time, given how many things we have on our collective plates... and how that has come to be regarded as normal. At least we're told it now constitutes "normal," and we just need to get over ourselves. I don't think there's anything normal about making our entire lives about working around the clock.
So I am OK with having slow days, even though I don't much care for the brain fog that causes them.
Of course, I am often taken to task over the fact that I don't really do anything about my slow days, such as take stimulants or drink lots of energy drinks. While these are typically well meaning suggestions, they overlook aforementioned fact that I'm really okay with having slow days. Not every single waking moment of my existence needs to be filled with activity and productivity!
I definitely consider myself blessed in the sense that I am self-employed and don't have to rely on being "sharp" and on-task every single day because I have to go to a place of employment that requires relentless productivity.
One of the interesting things I've noticed — because I'm a student of such things — is that most of my "slow days" aeem to occur during the summer. That is to say, they occur at a time of the year when we were historically on holiday when I was little and during my formative years... school was out and we didn't have to do anything. Makes me wonder whether we somehow build patterns into our subconscious about our expected activity levels at different times of the year.
Seems like a reasonable theory...
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2026.08.21 22:39 PDT
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My slow days are generally caused by true lack of energy, just can't find enough to get up and do something. I suspect as it's nearing the end of August, this recent string of "bad" days is caused by the onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder. For me this is when it starts.
During the summer the bad days usually are caused by doing too much previously, often for a string of days. But it amounts to the same thing, sitting and being unable to get motivated to do much of anything...