Original Advice
“DONT: Don’t apologize for needing reassurance or rest.”
Stop Apologizing For Being Human
Your competence became your apology. You over-deliver, over-explain, and still whisper sorry for needing a soft answer or a horizontal hour. That isn’t humility. It’s self-erasure dressed as politeness. You train people to take the version of you that never pauses, then resent them for believing it. Stop staging stamina. Name what you need and let the room adjust around you.
Reassurance is calibration, not indulgence. Rest is maintenance, not failure. The machine you fine-tune in others also lives in your chest. Skipping oil changes doesn’t make you noble; it makes you noisy and inaccurate. The work suffers when you refuse refueling. Ask, receive, shut the laptop, lie down. Precision returns. Clarity sharpens. Your relationships prefer the honest ping to the silent meltdown.
Cosmic Context
Mutable Earth needs intervals to keep its edges clean. Mercury rules your circuits; stillness resets the signal.
Action
──────Ask for reassurance without apologizing. Nap for twenty minutes.
✨ You are allowed to need and be met. ✨