Stress, Part 2 · 8:14am Jan 14th, 2014
Hey guys, as the title implies this is going to be a follow up blog to my previous one titled stress. If you didn't read the original, either go read it now and come back, or don't bother with this one at all.
I know quite a few people read that one, and I've gotten a few people asking me how I'm doing now, so I figured I'd post a bit of an aftermath blog.
As is typical at 1 in the morning when I made that original blog, my mind was making my situation seem far worse than it actually was. Once I actually pushed through it, I realized how small my problems really were and how easy they were to fix after putting my mind to it. I still have a lot of work to do if I want to pass my English class, but I just wrote the essay portion of my final exam earlier today, and I'm feeling good about it.
In short, I'm feeling a lot better about school and life in general. At the time of that blog, and indeed through most of the holiday season, I was at a very low point in my life. I didn't have a lot of energy and I was all around moody and depressed. Recently my life has picked up considerably, and I'm once again having fun with... well... everything. It's a feeling I sorely missed over those winter weeks, and the fact that this isn't the first winter this has happened to me leads me to believe I suffer from a mild form of S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder, for those who didn't know-basically I get really depressed during winter). I'm gonna look into it a bit more, but winter has always been a terrible time for me in pretty much every way.
Aside from that, I've gotten back into my writing. Practically throwing myself into my contest fic, which I hope to have another chapter edited and up tomorrow, providing I get a lot of work done tonight. For the first time in weeks I managed to enjoy myself doing something actually productive, and my mood has been lifted all around. I'm getting a new camera on Thursday, $500 worth of awesome DSLR goodness. Cannot wait. I've always been a bit of a photography enthusiast, but I've never had any real money for it. This time, a bunch of people are throwing out some cash as a late Christmas gift for me, and I couldn't be more happy with it.
I'm getting a new couch and chair set sometime in the next week or two, and a new, 46" LCD smart TV about a week after that. It's upgrade time!
Right now I have so many things in my life to be happy about that I've all but forgotten my stress and my worry. Hell, even if I don't get enough done and flunk English, it's not like I can't drop an option or two next year and take it again. I've finally started looking on the bright side of life again, and ca honestly say I'm not afraid of what's going to happen in the coming days.
Than you to everyone who read Stress, and to those who offered your support and words of encouragement. I'll try not to let myself get that low again.
((Apologies for the re-post, I screwed something up on the original))
Until next time,
Kodeake out
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