~✧°+* 19/100 days of doing better*+°✧~
18.08.2023
Do you also have those friends that you love dearly and have fun hanging out with, but who you simply can't talk about work with? I have a very strict (and borderline toxic) work ethic in which I have very high expectations towards myself and hold myself to a certain standard I feel like I have to meet in order to be worth something (which is crazy, I realize that). I don't hold other people to those standards, but when I do have conversations about work and academia with people who are a bit more relaxed about it I get incredibly anxious. And something like that happened today, which kind of forced me to take a break from the Hamilton essay because I was freaking out, thinking I wasn't doing enough and too much at the same time. I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track but I still doubt myself a lot when it comes to those things, especially when I am talking to people who are older or in higher semesters.
I tried to drown out the buzzing sound of anxiety with Sims and it honestly worked quite well.
Positive things I did today:
organized my Hamilton sources
took a break when I was feeling stressed
took a walk
continued reading Swimming in the Dark
Had a couble of drinks with friends
Hours slept: ~7hrs Screentime: ~7hrs 30mins Steps taken: ~9.100
for those of you who don't know "we should write a paper on this" is equivalent to "we should start a band" in academia
~✧°+* 27/100 days of doing better*+°✧~
30.08.2023
I felt a lot better and stopped taking my meds early. That came to bite me in the butt in the evening, so we're back to the meds :')
I did manage to go on a little walk tho! Motivating myself to go for walks is a lot harder whenever I visit my parents because my home town is located in a very hilly area. The city I live in now is mostly flat (also because it's, well, a city and not a small town) and so simply going out (and staying out longer) is, for some reason, easier to justify in my mind. I do, however, love the nature surrounding my home town, so walks are usually worth the exhaustion.
Positive things I did today:
finished literature review for the Hamilton essay and made a writing plan
went for a walk
Hours slept: ~8hrs Screentime: ~6hrs 30mins Steps taken: ~4.400
Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️
"Things are shaping up to be pretty odd."
~✧°+* 17/100 days of doing better*+°✧~
16.08.2023
I blame the fact that I am so lost in the sauce on the amount of stress I am under at the moment. It's also gotten really hot again which my body is NOT built for.
I started looking for apartments, though. I'm planning to move to a bigger place with some friends early next year - we'll see if that actually works, but we for sure are motivated.
Positive things I did today:
cleaned the apartment
worked on the Hamilton essay
read before bed
Hours slept: ~7hrs Screentime: ~5hrs Steps taken: ~4.400
when you go
would you have the guts to say
i dont love you
i'm just passing the time
*pats your back* it's OK, sis, it's OK. We'll just change our phone wallpapers to pretty skies, change the layout and then we'll gently purge our phones outside the windows and start using it for less than 2 hours a day, we'll also eat more fruits and soups, touch the wall, then the floor,the carpet and the door and before we know it, we'll reach the grass and plants waiting for us all this time,and then we'll look at the sky, look at it some more and fall asleep, we'll then take a nice refreshing bath, wash our hair and sit on our desk, smile and then take our books to sit on the floor, and sis, that's when magic happens because you don't need more, you need less. You don't need plans, you need space, to be, content without those mfs.
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~✧°+* 38/100 days of doing better*+°✧~
10.09.2023
Today I went on a hike with my family! It wasn't very far of very challenging, and we actually weren't out for that long, but I really enjoy traversing the woods of the area I grew up in. Perhaps I should make an effort to do that on my own in the future.
My siblings and I also fed some deer at the enclosure near the trail.
Also, congratulations to my brother for shamelessly running ahead and ending up walking a harder, longer path because he didn't wait for us when the path split (don't worry, he's alright and was keeping us updated via WhatsApp as this was happening).
Positive things I did that day:
went for a hike with family
got up and went to bed at reasonable times
Hours slept: ~6hrs Screentime: ~6hrs Steps taken: ~8.679
Anne | 24 | German | English literature student | writer | band lover
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