How To Give Fewer F*cks
Women's Health South Africa|July 2020
If “spent” used to be what happened to your money on payday on Superbalist.com, now it’s more likely to describe a mind-fogging fatigue. As a new book reveals that emotional exhaustion is a modern malaise affecting pretty much everyone, is it time you stopped caring so much about, well, everything?
Gemma Askham
How To Give Fewer F*cks

They had already exchanged 21 WhatsApp messages that weekend, but it was the double ping she received en route to their Sunday dinner date that made 27-year-old Chloe’s adrenaline surge. “I’m so sorry to do this...” her friend Karen wrote, before bailing for the third time that month. Furious, Chloe stewed: her shoulders clenched, she wrote a passive-aggressive retort she knew she’d never send, then realised she’d also been lumbered with cancelling the reservation. As for plan B? She could now make late yoga, but her desire to practise had evaporated along with her social life. As she waited for her Uber to take her home, she scrolled through her emails, finding reminders about a staff meeting and the R900 she owed for a bachelorette party. Far from ending the weekend rested, she felt hopeless, mind-frazzled, sh*t.

This story is from the July 2020 edition of Women's Health South Africa.

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