Every lazy afternoon is a loan from next week’s version of you, and they didn’t agree to it.

Time borrowed from later still has to be repaid by someone, and that someone is you in a worse mood with less room. Rest you chose is different from an afternoon that disappears while you meant to do something else; the second one arrives as a bill you do not remember signing. The cost is rarely dramatic, just a week that feels tighter than it needed to.

Decide before the afternoon whether it is rest or avoidance, then let it be fully what it is. An hour taken on purpose costs almost nothing; four taken by accident cost the whole week.