You deserve a break today
Or two. Or three. Take all the breaks, I ain't your Pa.
Since Friday’s post was part one of a two-part extravaganza about the highs and lows of the fast food industry, today’s post will not cover any new ground. The second part of the fast food newsletter will run on Friday, so keep your eyes peeled for that later.
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My birthday is on Wednesday. I was initially thinking of making today’s post a long-winded soliloquy about aging, and the lessons I’ve learned, and what I hope manifests during the future that I hope to experience, and whatnot. Then I just sat here looking at the cursor blink on this formerly blank page, shrugged, and said to myself, “Nah.”
I’ve decided to take a break today (Sunday)3. Breaks are a good thing, except for bones.
I guess if I were to share a life lesson that I’ve picked up, it would be that you shouldn’t feel guilty for taking a step back and allowing yourself to rest. That’s something that I’ve had to wrestle with for years, because I like many others have been trained to buy into this toxic culture of overworking that our society has propped up forever.
Remember when people were sharing that clip of Steve Harvey talking about how he’s wealthy and successful because he doesn’t sleep a full eight hours a day, and that if we want to be like him, we gotta be willing to make sacrifices like in order to get there? As much as I don’t really enjoy agreeing with Mr. Hightower4 in any way, shape, or form5, I guess he’s not wrong. We do tend to reward people who take that extra mile all the time, no matter what kind of toll that it’ll have on them in the long run.
But the thing with me is just that, yo… I really like to sleep. If me being asleep is one of the things that’s hindering me from being Family Feud rich, then it is what it is. (To be fair, I have a journalism degree – so I have long accepted that I won’t have anywhere near beaucoup funds for the rest of my life, unless I win the lottery or get some kind of settlement from Unilever because of the detriments of my past Axe body spray use6.)
The point here is that rest is good. I understand that life is short, and gets shorter with every birthday we celebrate, but that’s also a key reason in favor of taking a breather.
So, I’m gonna go get caught up on the Oscar-nominated movies, eat some junk food, and potentially throw away a nice chunk of change by taking a nap. I encourage you to do whatever makes you feel relaxed and refreshed at some point this week, too.
To be honest, I don’t really have a good answer for this. It just seemed like an interesting idea at the time, and so it stuck. I might revisit this and make some tweaks to the publication schedule if the current method stops sticking, but that’s a conversation for another day.
And those clicks are D E L I C I O U S.
Typically, I write the Monday posts on Sunday and the Friday posts on Thursday. They each take up a pretty decent chunk of time to write, edit, and rewrite.
If your frame of reference for Steve Harvey is only Family Feud and his talk show, and not from his work on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, then please educate thyself.
Steve Harvey is notorious for saying and doing things that could aptly be considered as “sus.” Examples include joking about Asian men being unattractive, disrespecting his staff, and intensely chastising Mo’Nique for having the audacity to choose money over a paycheck.
Repeated use of Axe is essentially chemical warfare, and those who partake in it should be tried in federal court.