I’m not languishing, I’m dormant
“It seems to me that the reason that so many of us feel like we’re languishing is that we are trying to flourish in terrible conditions. It is spring outside — or the “unlocking” season — but it is still “Winter in America,” and, as any gardener knows, if you try to wake a plant out of dormancy too soon, it will wither, and maybe die.”
I really like the way Kleon turns the idea of languishing into dormancy, which I much prefer as well.