I was raised to awake every morning and make my bed. Then my job was to be productive, however I could. “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” was an adage I frequently heard and came to see proved many times. So it’s hard to adjust to being sick. What does a person who wants, above all else, to be productive do when she wakes up and can’t peel her head off of the pillow? How does she make sense of her day when being productive, if she’s lucky, is making lunch, or if she’s really productive, writing this brief paragraph.
I was raised to awake every morning and make my bed. Then my job was to be productive, however I could. “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” was an adage I frequently heard and came to see proved many times. So it’s hard to adjust to being sick. What does a person who wants, above all else, to be productive do when she wakes up and can’t peel her head off of the pillow? How does she make sense of her day when being productive, if she’s lucky, is making lunch, or if she’s really productive, writing this brief paragraph.