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I Need To Hit Snooze..

When tiredness steals your muse…

Li
2 min readAug 21, 2021
Photo by Yogendra Singh on Unsplash

I’ve had a very busy few days lately, and I must admit, I’m struggling with tiredness and exhaustion now. I feel so worn out, it’s like my brain is filled with cotton wool and I know that the moment I lay down in bed, I’ll probably not even finish one page of my grotesquely magnified (thank you Nanny who blessed me with extreme short sightedness) kindle book.

As a result of this tiredness, writing has been hard to do. I’ve been going through some things, and the mythical being that is my muse, seems to have abandoned me for pastures less exhausted.

IT’S HARD TO WRITE…

It is hard to write, or create anything, when your eyes want to close all the time and you just want to curl up in a ball and make like sleeping beauty (except with out the beauty).

The thing is, that for me, and I know this sounds dramatic, but writing is everything to me. Creating is everything to me. It is breath. It is life. When I’m not creating, my mind gets full; so full that I feel it might explode any moment. The only way for me to empty it a little, is to create.

THIS IS WHERE JOURNALING COMES IN

I often write about journalling. My journey with journalling is an ongoing learning curve. I am learning every day, and sometimes…

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Li
Li

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Level 38|Wales|Writer|Artist|Crafter|Chronic Health Warrior|Fibromyalgia|DID|CPTSD|&

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