Day 42 -- Imperfections and failures

Why do I always feel like I have to accomplish something w/ each day?   I should consider it an accomplishment just to be alive.  That's my rationalization for sleeping most of the day and being a bum for the rest of it.   I did read a little, and in the October 2011 issue of The Sun (Issue 430), it excerpted Gandhi's All Men Are Brothers.  He said, "My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet."  That speaks to me especially today and tells me to not be so hard on myself for taking a day off from activity and productivity.  Simply being alive is as much a blessing as accomplishing something w/ that life.  Well, I don't fully believe that, but it does make me human and that works for today.