Limitations
I found this post drafted on my phone whilst clearing out my notes. Healthwise i am doing a lot better but i thought this deserved to be posted as a reminder about not trying to live up to what we see on social media.
There was a meme that circled a few weeks back;
I am a person who likes to do lots of things trapped in the body of a person who likes to sleep a lot.
Never were truer words spoken when you suffer with fatigue.
Cutting out gluten has helped. I have gone from a state where getting through the day was a struggle. Where merely standing up felt like gravity was crushing me. Where I was waking up tired, surviving till I was able to have a nap in my lunch break then surviving till I could go to bed normally about the same time as the kids. Where if you asked me a question it would take some time to register that it had been asked then to try and formulate an answer was like my brain was being dragged through thick soup. To a state where most days are good days.
But I still have fatigue and bad days.
I manage to work part-time. I may not win mum of the year but I manage to look after my kids. I manage to exercise. Some weeks I even manage to socialise. But any virus leaves me bed bound and this happens at least once a month.
So when I'm writing about living a minimalist and ethical lifestyle. This is an ideal. Some days I might be able to cook a lovely meal from scratch (not that my kids eat it), some days it is a 'things in the oven' meal.
Some days I have energy to declutter. Some days I'm just trying to push things on the sofa to one side so I can sit down.
This weekend I have had some bad days. So I have been picturing in my head things I would like to get done. I have been reading and making lists. All awhile I am surrounded by various laundry piles, a jobs list that gets longer not shorter and kids going stir crazy from being in the house while my poor husband who has his own health problems endeavours to take care of them and do some of the household chores.
Sometimes when we see blog posts or images on social media we forget that these potray only the best sides of others. And sometimes we feel that we don't measure up to them. Sometimes it's easy to forget that we all suffer our own personal limitations.
There was a meme that circled a few weeks back;
I am a person who likes to do lots of things trapped in the body of a person who likes to sleep a lot.
Never were truer words spoken when you suffer with fatigue.
Cutting out gluten has helped. I have gone from a state where getting through the day was a struggle. Where merely standing up felt like gravity was crushing me. Where I was waking up tired, surviving till I was able to have a nap in my lunch break then surviving till I could go to bed normally about the same time as the kids. Where if you asked me a question it would take some time to register that it had been asked then to try and formulate an answer was like my brain was being dragged through thick soup. To a state where most days are good days.
But I still have fatigue and bad days.
I manage to work part-time. I may not win mum of the year but I manage to look after my kids. I manage to exercise. Some weeks I even manage to socialise. But any virus leaves me bed bound and this happens at least once a month.
So when I'm writing about living a minimalist and ethical lifestyle. This is an ideal. Some days I might be able to cook a lovely meal from scratch (not that my kids eat it), some days it is a 'things in the oven' meal.
Some days I have energy to declutter. Some days I'm just trying to push things on the sofa to one side so I can sit down.
This weekend I have had some bad days. So I have been picturing in my head things I would like to get done. I have been reading and making lists. All awhile I am surrounded by various laundry piles, a jobs list that gets longer not shorter and kids going stir crazy from being in the house while my poor husband who has his own health problems endeavours to take care of them and do some of the household chores.
Sometimes when we see blog posts or images on social media we forget that these potray only the best sides of others. And sometimes we feel that we don't measure up to them. Sometimes it's easy to forget that we all suffer our own personal limitations.
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