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Originally Posted by Have Hope
Take the time you need outside of work to recharge your batteries, whatever that entails. Can you utilize your downtime hours at night and on the weekends to recharge? What gives you a sense of inner peace and happiness? Pursue those activities that bring you these feelings again... journal, read, take walks in nature, go hiking, running, volunteer, meditate, or talk to friends and family... just throwing out some ideas for you. It really sounds like you just need some down time, some alone time to reconnect with the part of yourself that is currently buried or masked... it's still there, that happy side of you.. you just need to nurture it and feed it more so that you can feel it again come back to life. So, I suggest some solo recharge time & some good 'ole self care.. Work and other obligations can be all consuming, but we need to also recharge so that we can be at our best and feel at our best. Best wishes.
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Yes, I've been so absorbed with all the planning that it's been what I've been revolving around since the semester ended. But all the details have been straightened out and I can focus more on what I want to do in my free time.
The graduation trip has been so dramatic to plan...one friend I wanted to see said I couldn't hang out with another friend only to say she has health issues and it's not a good time, then there was a major issue of where I'll be staying where I was told to cancel the trip, but then we got over the hurdle and all was fine, then there was endless lists of things I need to pack and do and see...
Graduation itself has been very straightforward--a big lunch the day of and then the ceremony, and then spend time with family--and then my brother and I are putting on a big BBQ for my dad and grandpa for Father's Day, which again is straight forward--hot dogs and homemade macaroni salad and sides my brother and I will make together. I gotta find some form of celebration for my grandma, she turns 75 right before she comes up to see me.
So I've got the itinerary for the graduation and the trip, and I've got all my documents prepared and lists created and cap and gown ordered...now it's time to focus on my own mental health.