Remembering to Let Yourself Unwind
Staying true to yourself is one of the most important things you can do.
It’s possible to forget that you haven’t slept enough, eaten well, had enough time off for vacation.
You’ll feel irritable, make irrational decisions, and sometimes feel like your life is in a perpetual loop embodied by an existence of messiness and a lack of clarity.
All of these things create a particular sort of mental stress that will warp you faster and more dangerously than you can imagine.
And it’s impossible to stay true to yourself if you don’t recognize and — ironically — work on relieving yourself of that mental stress.
Think about it this way.
You’ll die before your body physically warps and coils from external stress (a gruesome thought), but our minds and our psychology itself are built to be more resilient than even that.
You can think yourself made of steel, just like the wire rope in the photo and the continuous windings of your life may strengthen you in the same way, but you’ll also be simultaneously rusted, bent, and broken because of that same strength.
For me, writing freely possess some sort of recuperative quality, and I think that even reading something that I’ve written just to write can help create that…
