Rejuvenation
Over the past week, I have been feeling exhausted. Waves of grief have started to crash over me again. I’d been working for a number of weeks with the following idea in my head. If I can just get rid of everything that isn’t conducive to my two goals which are walking again and helping people I will be much better off. Specifically, I started cutting things like hanging out with friends and socializing with new people. Things that brought me joy and rejuvenation. I was sure I didn’t need them to keep working hard and have a good attitude. I was wrong. These activities are crucial to my ability to be creative and persevere. They are conducive to my goals of walking again and helping people. Why are they conducive? To discover this, I had to first feel what it was like without them. I am an extrovert, I get my energy from others. Without others, I have a hard time staying motivated to do things. Needless to say by isolating myself I felt drained. I have discovered that sociali...