The way I see it, moping is the pits. While I do recommend the occasional bout of feeling sorry for oneself, extended periods of this are just going to result in a less productive, unhappy, constantly-down individual.
In my eternal optimism, I find that the solution, then, must be to work. Work, work, work until there really isn't time to wander around the house with a hangdog expression and plenty of depression for anyone who has the misfortune to cross your path.
Every single thing I've read online about motivation and maintaining a study-life balance and stuff (maybe I Googled extensively. Sue me :D) says that organization is key, as is time management. As a champion failure in both aspects, I can say that the FEW times I have actually attempted at these with some mild success have been awesome. You feel like you're doing something in life rather than going through the motions like an automaton.
It's surely not easy, but then, what is? Up to a certain point in life, all seems rosy and delightful. Maybe it's high school for some, college for some, first useless job for others. While you do face challenges and problems, I don't seem to remember the bone-deep fatigue with life that I have heard fellow 20-somethings complain about. But there you have it. By choice, we live demanding lives. At least, most of us. We have chosen our gruelling professions for love or money, or both, and we have chosen our ambitions and our insecurities and our means to becoming "better". Now we all need to deal with it.
Back to work!
But first, some 80s, just because it's Throwback Thursday and all that :)
In my eternal optimism, I find that the solution, then, must be to work. Work, work, work until there really isn't time to wander around the house with a hangdog expression and plenty of depression for anyone who has the misfortune to cross your path.
Every single thing I've read online about motivation and maintaining a study-life balance and stuff (maybe I Googled extensively. Sue me :D) says that organization is key, as is time management. As a champion failure in both aspects, I can say that the FEW times I have actually attempted at these with some mild success have been awesome. You feel like you're doing something in life rather than going through the motions like an automaton.
It's surely not easy, but then, what is? Up to a certain point in life, all seems rosy and delightful. Maybe it's high school for some, college for some, first useless job for others. While you do face challenges and problems, I don't seem to remember the bone-deep fatigue with life that I have heard fellow 20-somethings complain about. But there you have it. By choice, we live demanding lives. At least, most of us. We have chosen our gruelling professions for love or money, or both, and we have chosen our ambitions and our insecurities and our means to becoming "better". Now we all need to deal with it.
Back to work!
But first, some 80s, just because it's Throwback Thursday and all that :)
