When You Start By Wrapping Your Arms Around These Powerful Tabs, Literally Everything Is Possible

“Linguistically, a duvet day feels gentle and generous, while rotting in bed conjures up a sense of decay, of life collapsing in on itself. Bed rotting doesn’t shy away from the sticky experience of staying in the same clothes all day or the lethargy that can come from lying down for hours on end.”

The grossness is the point — because, as O’Sullivan

Sleep is fine (but it has to be “productive” deep sleep, no naps!!); self-care is fine (so long as it also involves buying things, resisting aging, etc. etc.); exercise is great (disciplining and regimenting the body). But truly doing nothing, not even birding, not even gentle walking, not even organizing , where’s the moral value in that?

The term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.

The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●