As usual, there have been good things, bad things, and all sorts of things in between⋯ and I am completely exhausted 😵💫. And now, once again this year, summer fatigue has arrived.
What’s more, this year’s summer fatigue has me at “rock bottom.” Together with accumulated exhaustion, it feels like a double punch.
This is pretty bad! I have to do something about it⋯.
Come to think of it, I once wrote a blog post called “Can You Fight for 24 Hours?”, but these days I certainly cannot fight for 24 hours.
When good things, bad things, and sheer busyness all pile up at once, eventually both body and mind stop keeping pace. When I was younger, I might have powered through on momentum alone, but that no longer works the same way.
And then there is this heat. I should not simply assume it is summer fatigue; I also need to watch out for heatstroke. While checking the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s “Preventing Heatstroke”, I have decided to start by drinking some fluids and taking a short rest.
At times like this, I do not have to force myself to look up. If I have already reached rock bottom, all that remains is to rise little by little.