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Nov 02, 2014, 10:40 PM
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I was reading a text book for school, and I realized that I wasn't focused at all so I got really frustrated with myself. Then I decided to go on Facebook because I've been missing one of my exes recently, only to find lots of pictures of him and this really pretty, seemingly free-spirited girl. I immediately felt the pangs of inadequacy.
I probably gave you too many details, but at this point I'm torn between continuing to read and to stress myself even more or to put it aside for tonight, which will probably make me feel even more icky about myself. And which will also give me more work later in the week. I never know which is best.
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Nov 02, 2014, 11:00 PM
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In my experience, when I'm having problems focusing I find it's better to just put it aside and do something to ease my stress instead. When you can't focus you get irritated, it takes twice as long and you really don't retain any info so it pretty much pointless. Don't feel badly about it or yourself. Instead be proud that you can recognize when something is not a good idea and would be detrimental to improving your mental health. Although it's not always possible putting your mental health above all else is extremely helpful in getting better. If you do your reading another night when you can focus you will find it goes faster, you retain the material and you don't get frustrated.
Hope this helps. I know how you feel with both the reading and the FB thing. Hugs! |
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Nov 02, 2014, 11:06 PM
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 I hope your night goes well! 
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“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Nov 03, 2014, 07:27 PM
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Something I've learned in my short, drawn-out 22 years of life - Nothing is as it seems. Even the happiest couples argue. Even the prettiest girls have personality downfalls. Even the sexiest of ex's fart.
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"Re-examine all you have been told, dismiss what insults your soul." - Walt Whitman "Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." - Christopher Hitchens "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience." - Mark Twain |
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