Day 112: 7/21/2018
I thought I would start writing today. Unfortunately, that did not happen today.
It all was due to another old friend’s visit, a migraine headache. I woke up and went out for a run despite feeling a tad exhausted. At the end, it was not a good run because it was too tiring and I felt hungry most of the time. To be fair, I should add that I still felt great and relieved that I did it.
After the breakfast, I did not feel like working at all. It was more of the feeling of burnout both physically and mentally. Looking back for the past week, I have been pushing myself a bit harder than the previous weeks and that might have resulted in this feeling. Thus, I let myself play around for a few hours but inside I hoped that I would feel better and become ready for work again.
That feeling never came today. Who came instead was my old friend, a migraine headache, and that visit took me the entire afternoon to recover. No matter what I did from taking a nap, taking a shower, to taking another long nap did not do any good to that. I ended up having to take a pill again. Also, I wondered why a migraine headache has become another regular visitor to me recently. Is that because I have been unknowlingly under a increasing amount of stress? I am totally clueless. Thankfully, after that magic little yellow pill, the pain was gone and my friend left me painfree again.
Feeling guilty at not having started writing as I wished, I tried to move on and be more productive for the rest of the day. First, I recorded a video for my Facebook page as a daily practice routine just established yesterday. Then made myself very simple dinner.
Later on, I worked on note-taking of unfinished work of Michaels, O’Connor, and Resnick (2008). At the very least, I found it super useful to read the article again with a fresh set of eyes this time. The ideas explicated in the article have become clearer to me. Phew… there is something good happening today!
I truly hope that tomorrow will be a better day.
7/21/2018 10.12 pm.
