The phrase “sick and tired” has been rattling around in my head lately.
If you’ve gotten to that point, wouldn’t the “tired” part come first? Even if that isn’t the case, before you wind up feeling both sick and tired, shouldn’t you have stepped back to take a break of some sort? And if you did that, what did you do during that break that didn’t help enough to make those feelings go away?
I think a more apt phrase would be “stuck and tired.” You got stuck and then got tired while trying to get unstuck. You could even regress a step further and become “stuck and tired and sick” from all of the trying to get unstuck.
I’ve been stuck before. I’d say I’m a little stuck right now. I’m even borderline tired. But knowing I’m stuck, I am wriggling and moving to get unstuck. I don’t get sick very often – even during the winter months – largely because I recognize that being stuck is nowhere I want to be.
So I move. Hopefully forward. Either way, moving keeps me from getting stuck for too long. And since I’m used to moving when I’m stuck, I have enough fortitude to keep from getting tired, let alone sick.
The next time you want to utter the phrase “sick and tired”, ask yourself if you’re “stuck and tired” instead.
Then start moving.
