A stuffy nose makes everything feel sluggish, doesn't it?

This weekend, because of a stuffy nose and a low-grade fever,
my body felt sluggish the whole time.
The most annoying thing about this kind of malaise
is that it's not quite bad enough to be 'completely down'.
It's not bad enough to stay in bed.
But I can't say I'm feeling energetic either.

I carry a box of tissues with me at all times,
wiping my nose as soon as it starts to run,
and if I feel a sneeze coming on, I pull out a tissue
and wait.
When I try to roll up a tissue and stuff it in my nose,
then I can't breathe.
A strap that lets you hang a tissue box
around your neck might actually sell.
That's the kind of business idea I started thinking about.

That said,
the weekend routine is relentless.
Laundry piles up,
and I have to go grocery shopping.
Even if my nose is stuffed up,
the clothes that need washing are piled up
in the laundry basket without mercy,
and the refrigerator is putting on silent pressure,
saying, 'Time to restock.'
Life doesn't show any consideration at all.

Of course,
on days like this, I don't do things the usual way.
Laundry isn't about 'getting it all done neatly,' but
'just hanging it up is good enough.'
Shopping is also limited to the 'minimum set
to get through today and tomorrow.'

I cut down the content of my routine significantly.
But I count the items as done.

Then, strangely enough,
I feel a little bit better.
Perhaps people are saved more by the fact that it wasn't zero
than by the fact that they did it perfectly.

Even so, when my body feels sluggish,
the gears for the things I usually do
don't shift up at all.
Just hanging up the laundry
feels like a whole job for some reason.
By the time I head out to shop,
I feel like I've finished
everything I had to do today.
Even though I haven't even arrived
at the supermarket yet.

In this world,
there are upbeat words like
raising your tension or
raising your motivation.
But when you're not feeling well
and someone says that to you,
you just think,
'I'd like you to clear my nose before that.'
It looks like a matter of mindset,
but it's actually quite a physical problem.
My nose is stuffed,
I'm a little feverish, and my body feels heavy.
Just that alone makes a person
surprisingly and honestly exhausted.

In the end, I managed to hang the laundry,
and I was able to go shopping.
But rather than a sense of accomplishment,
it was more like 'I managed to stay open for business.'
It wasn't a huge success,
but I didn't have to take an emergency day off either.
Well, I feel like that's enough.
On days when you're not feeling well,

it's better not to use your usual self as a benchmark.
It's natural not to be able to do the same things with the same intensity,
and it's enough to just keep things running at a minimum
while reducing the load.
What's needed on days like that
might be giving yourself permission to say,
'I'm going to run in energy-saving mode today'
rather than trying to squeeze out motivation.
This weekend,

I spent my time thinking about things like that.
On days when your body feels sluggish,
even just doing your usual routine
is genuinely exhausting.
So at least, reduce the content a little,
and do it in a way that you can.

Controlling how you apply the load
feels professional.

In the end,
it's just a story about how my nose was stuffed and it was tough, but I got it done.

Thank you for reading
until the end.

If you have a stuffy nose and are feeling a bit down,
I hope this provides a small hint
to help you breathe through your nose.