Read This When You Feel Like Giving Up
There is a particular kind of tiredness that sleep does not fix. It shows up when you have opened the same bank app three times in one day, hoping the number will somehow look different. It shows up when you are doing everything you know to do, praying, working, cutting back, and the situation still refuses to move. If you are reading this because you feel like giving up, I want you to know first of all that you are not weak for feeling this way. You are tired, and tired people deserve gentleness. Maybe it is a stack of unpaid bills on the kitchen table. Maybe it is a job search that has stretched on for months, or a debt that seems to grow faster than you can pay it down. Maybe nobody around you knows how heavy it has become, because you have been smiling through it. Whatever your version of this is, the thought has probably crossed your mind: What is the point of trying anymore? This article is not going to promise you that everything will be fixed by Friday. Nobody honest can prom...