Losing It
When your memory starts to fail, it can be hard to discern between illness, aging and stress. But that distinction can feel pretty important.
Ever feel like you are losing it? Like you are losing part of your innate ability to do all of the things that you could do before with ease?
That’s where I am at these days… but it wasn’t always that way.
At the college I attended, there was a limit on how many units could be attempted in a quarter. If you wanted to go above that, you had to ask special permission from the dean of your school to take extra units. I know this, because I did just that, when I decided I wanted to take on the challenge of graduating in three years instead of four.
I juggled 5-6 classes a quarter, and I even made the honor list, as I accomplished my goal. The next year, I did a 15-month program to get my teaching credential and my masters degree in two summers and a school year. So, I attended college from 2002–2006, and by the end of the summer 2006 I had a BA degree, a teaching credential and a masters degree.
All this to say, I thrived on the challenge of lots of things happening at once.
I kept track of all my classes, assignments, and hectic schedule, and it felt good to me.
