Say precisely what you feel
Most of us have four words for everything: fine, tired, stressed, okay.
Four words cannot hold a life. And something unhelpful happens when the vocabulary is too small — the feeling has nowhere accurate to land, so it stays, unnamed and unexamined, and leaks into the evening.
Try being precise. Not stressed, but rushed. Not fine, but relieved. Not tired, but depleted, which is a different thing and asks for a different remedy.
The precision itself does something. A feeling that has been named exactly tends to settle, because it has finally been heard.
What is the more precise word for how you are today?
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