You may be familiar with the word: hangry. It is when you are angry because you’re hungry.
My first main experience of this word was when I was hangry without even realizing it. My husband and I were walking home and he said to me, “What’s wrong with you? Why are you squeezing your face?” I snapped back “I’m not squeezing my face. Nothing is wrong.” And then I thought about it a some more and I realized I was squeezing my face. I wondered what was wrong. It had been a good day except that I hadn’t eaten anything reasonable all day. Then I said, “Oh I think I’m hangry.” We got home a few minutes later and I had a nice meal and felt much better.
Whether or not we are conscious of it, we go through life feeling and expressing our emotions. In the example above, I needed a moment of reflection to become aware of my hangry feeling.
Sometimes we don’t address our rest needs because we are not aware when we are lacking it. Please take a moment to think. How are you feeling right now about your work and rest? Feel free to construct a new word to name your reality.
Here are some examples of what you may be feeling:
- Workstrated is being frustrated because of work.
- Workilty is being guilty because of the work you have done or not done.
- Workwhelmed is being overwhelmed from work.
- Restad is being sad that you have not rest.
- Repressed is being depressed because of lack of rest.
- Suffrest is suffering from lack of rest.
These may be fake English words but they are real human emotions. Name your reality so you can decide what you want to do about it.
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