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Micro essay/dream journal: six minute read
Years ago I saw a career counselor. She had this exercise she wanted me to do where I would draw up a calendar and schedule out the minutia of my day, taking care to pencil-in “me time.” She showed me an example with pastel crayons and glittery stickers and ten to twenty-minute blocks that weren’t devoted to the needs of others.
“You’re fucking kidding me?!” I blurted out, not stopping to consider that my comment might be insensitive. “I will not do this! My whole LIFE is ‘me time’!”
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