Learning about how to rest from observing birdlife on the beach.
Living with long covid for the last four or so months has been challenging. One aspect I'm struggling with is having to rest a lot during the day. I'm not talking about a short fifteen minute power nap kind of rest, but often an hour at a time (or more) throughout the day. My current level of fatigue means that this seems to be the only way to be slightly functional for short periods in the day. Any more activity and I start to go downhill. It feels totally alien to me yet every day I am confronted with the fact that at the moment, rest is necessary. Why is something as natural as taking a rest so difficult to do? I understand and value sleep as an essential part of our health. But resting during the day? There is so much I want to do in life, why would I even want to stop during the day? I am someone who has only rested when I feel ill. Given a choice on a leisurely Sunday afternoon to either have a nap or go for a swim in the cold sea, I would choose the swim. I wou