Stress management much?
Do you ever have a moment where you look back on several distinct moments where you said to yourself, "I'll deal with this later," or "I'm going to hate myself later for this," or "Fuck it, I'm sure everything will be fine," and then you just want to go back in time and bitch-slap your former self eight times over --- because really, what did you do then instead of taking care of business? Who the hell knows? I sure as hell don't.
And yet I'm doing it again. I'm like, "Oh, it's okay. Everything will be fine. I'm just going to sit here until I can go to sleep, and when I wake up tomorrow, rested, I will be able to deal with it, because today...well, today...today is just not a good day. Today was never meant to be. And tomorrow...tomorrow will be better."
I never said I was good with stress.
Thursday I am leaving for the Atacama Desert:
I will lay my eyes on something along those lines on Saturday probably. I don't know how, but somehow between now and Wednesday I am going to make write 20 more thesis-like pages appear out of NOTHING and then vanish into the desert for a week or so. I think it'll be good times. I want some peyote. Psychedelics are not on my list of banned substances.
Sobriety has been very, very hard this week. I miss Joe, and I miss the carefree feeling I had a few weeks ago that everything was going to be okay. Because I don't really feel that way anymore. I am really excited about my trip, but something about traveling and not drinking suddenly seems even lonelier than I ever imagined. I must be masochistic. And I can't stop thinking about the fact that I'm graduating in two months. TWO MONTHS. It's like reality suddenly decided it wants to be my new, annoying new best friend and I don't really like her very much.
Okay, me stop now, because this...this is not helpful. But I don't know what would be right now. Or...I do know...but...I don't do that anymore.
2 comments:
have you given yourself a chance to step back and evaluate what's really going on? that you're still breathing, you're doing fine in school, you work a lot, you have adoring friends and loving family, and that really shit is not that bad? it's just hard. (that's what she said). but you can do it... i always try to remember, although it's so difficult, that the only way to deal with problems is action, and what you can't have is fear, because fear causes paralysis, and when you're paralyzed you can't act, so you can't fix your problems... i love you
Dude--good luck. This is a really big challenge you've set out to overcome this year: dealing with stress using actual tools that you force yourself to learn. I think you're doing an amazing job.
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