My Monthly

I would love to talk about my period all day, but that is not the monthly I’m referring to here.

Can you take a guess?

It’s my monthly day off from capitalism. HA. Yes, there is a time in the month that I decide to take a day off from work solely to rest. I call it “my monthly”, or Anti-Capitalism Day.

It’s not always the same day. It sometimes happens when I am burnt out; sometimes when I just feel like it. But it’s always when I need it.

What do I do? I nap. Order the food I want. Sleep. Manifest my goals and dreams. Rest. Write. And anything else I want to do.

Of course, my job does not know this — how could they? Most workplaces, and even schools, don’t take mental health seriously. So what would they say to a monthly day off just to flush out the exhaustion that comes with working?

No matter how “modern” a company is, I can’t imagine one that would agree with this radical idea. Radical in their eyes, at least.

Capitalism is embedded in U.S. society, to the point that it’s how most companies and corporations fuel. It is toxic and can be detrimental to a person’s well-being. No, sorry to break it to you, humans are not meant to work 40 hours a week, 5 days straight.

Of course, I didn’t always think this way. I was someone who thought that if I played by the book and “pulled myself up by the bootstraps,” I’d get ALL the happiness and peace in life (and money, double HA). I honestly believed that grind culture was the way to go and exhaustion just meant hard work. Let me just say…it’s complete bullshit.

Take that nap. Call off for your mental health. Fuck capitalism.

They don’t want you to rest, to dream, to think. They want you to be an exhausted cog in their machine. Rest is resistance. No, I’m not a “productive” person. I’m just a person.