How many minutes do you get to yourself in a day? In a week? The very idea doesn’t sit well with many of us. We live in a culture that prizes busy-ness. “Busy” is a normal and admirable response to “How are you?”.
How many minutes do you get to yourself in a day? In a week?
As women, we often don’t think we have the privilege to do nothing. We’re the chauffeur and the cook. The employee or the boss. The tears wiper, the tantrum tamer, the story teller. The planner of the summer break, the scheduler of doctors’ appointments, the driver of pickups and drop-offs., we’re busy worrying about our aging parents or a struggling child. We’re ruminating about what others said or downgrading ourselves for not measuring up or not doing the things we want to do.
This disconnect with ourselves often begins in our very early years. Even as little girls, we reject parts of ourselves which our caregivers disapprove of, or wear the pink dress to “make mommy happy”. We then choose the subjects they approve of, the career they value, the partners who’ll make them happy. We never get to know the person we are, or we hide her away because she reminds us that we’re broken and inadequate in some way.
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