Life
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My Life Wasn’t Broken; My Thought Process Was
It was hard to notice the changes that had taken place, because day to day, little seemed different. I was tired, but it was more than just that. Everything was always being viewed through a pessimistic lens, and it was starting to wear on me. I was completely exhausted. Drained. Depleted. Constant feelings of negativity had left me feeling trapped, with no way out. It had become so easy to blame bad days on any- and everything external. For too long, I let outside factors affect me to the point where they had completely rewritten how I viewed things (that must be where “we see things as we are, not…
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Time Marches On, With Or Without You
During a rare, recent moment of motivation, I was clearing out my drafts folder – because honestly, who needs 100s of drafts cluttering up their mind and space? Nestled between outdated to-do lists, random notes, and calendar reminders, I came across a half-finished post: 3 Things I Learned After One Full Month Inside. Written exactly one month ago, it was after we’d been on lockdown/quarantine/stay-at-home orders/whatever you choose to call it for a full calendar month. It was also a few days after my self-imposed daily writing challenge ended. It had two main points, some random tangents, and… that’s it. An abrupt end; unfinished, raw, and barely fleshed out. At…