Drained
What it is telling youYou may not be tired at all. You may be missing purpose, meaning, or people.
How He Sees It.
The essay You’re Not Tired starts on a Friday at four in the afternoon, Eric in bed after a day of doing almost nothing, telling himself he was exhausted. The busiest days of his year had not felt like that.
His conclusion was that tired can be a mask. Sometimes it covers a life without enough meaning in it, and sometimes, as he later learned, it covers loneliness.
On Drained, Word for Word.
Each line links to the moment it was said or written.
“You’re not tired. You’re just not living with purpose and meaning, you’re not doing the things that gives you life.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize the days that were hectic, often times, were the days I felt most alive.”
“That’s why I will keep on leaping right back up, every time I fall, until my heart stops beating.”
What He Does With It.
Asks whether he is tired from giving a day everything, or drained from a day that gave him nothing.
Chow’s Choice: You’re Not TiredRefuses to step back from the hobbies, interests, and people that give him life.
Episode 65: Stop Making This Mistake, It's Time to Step UpAllows the down day, and then leaps back up.
Chow’s Choice: You’re Not Tired