Month: May 2025

I am constantly tired. Constantly lacking energy. Sometimes I am just lying down somewhere, just being there, unable to move at all.

I want to get up, to do something, but I just can’t. I can’t move my body. It doesn’t respond to my will. I am just so tired.

To get out of there, I have developed a trick.

I will start by focusing on moving a finger. I’m not trying to get up, I’m just trying to move my finger a teensy bit – to get out the complete stillness that has enveloped my body.

After I have managed to wiggle my pinky finger, I can use the momentum to add movement to the other fingers, to the hand. Eventually the wave of movement will move up my arm and to the rest of my body, and I can break out of the stone statue spell.

I have realized that the same finger-moving trick applies to other situations too.

Is there something to do – but it is hard, insurmountably hard to get it done?

Just don’t have mental nor physical resources for it?

Well, start with the smallest of actions. Do just a little bit. And the momentum of starting it will carry you on from there.

It will still be hard, but it will get done.

Or at least progress a bit.

Got any tricks of your own for getting things done? Let me know, I sure could use them.

Sometimes when you read (or watch) something that makes you feel really strong emotions, you feel weird for days after finishing it.

You feel weird mentally, you feel weird physically.

There’s this strange tightness in your body, like the essence of the thing you read has permeated your whole physical being.

All the things around you remind you of some details from the literary piece.

You can’t read anything else, because nothing else would compare. Reading something else would be akin to sacrilege toward that one masterpiece.

But in a few days, the feeling fades.

And you set out, hungry for more, looking for another story that can make you the same again.

Those kinds of literary works are the best.

(I read some random Korean comic that I liked)