.freeblackgirl: Survival shouldn’t depend on how much effort and time we invest in our jobs.
with her family and closest friends. Everything happens when she wants it to — and not a minute sooner. It’s her form of freedom.
And many of us are seeking to define our own freedom for ourselves. Capitalism steals so much from us. The system requires us to work ourselves into the ground for little reward, financial or otherwise. As Anne Helen Petersen captures in her 2020 book, “Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation,” we’re incentivized to spend the time we’re not working figuring out how to become better, more efficient workers at the expense of our leisure.
As we’ve watched inflation transform an already precarious situation for many Americans into a dire one, it has become clearer that investing our entire selves into companies that we don’t own doesn’t benefit us in any way.In a perfect world, we would live in societies that create the infrastructures necessary to support a workforce that gives priority to its workers above all else.
When we’re prioritizing work above resting, ignoring our bodies’ cues and the things in our life that bring us joy, we’re doing ourselves a dire disservice that’s sometimes irreparable. In a world wherecauses Black people to develop heart diseases at higher rates, rest is essential to our literal livelihood.
Most of us can’t afford to follow Beyoncé’s blueprint. We can’t resign from our jobs at a whim and expect to land on our feet. But, as we consider a new world where balance is possible, we now have a mantra that can remind us that there’s still a whole life outside of work — if only we have the time to figure it out. And as Hersey so aptly points out, rest is our mandate; sometimes, in fact, it’s the only resistance we have.
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