Today is my rest day. The week has tired me out.
I need space and time to relax and to reset before I start my second semester of classes next week.
It is so important to take breaks and I try to do it every day but each month, there would be a day I need total rest. After the last week of Foundations 2 block course, most of us in 1L need a good rest.
It doesn’t help that my daughter has been sick for 5 days, and I have been doing lots of laundry due to her vomits.
However, I am thankful that she is doing better and will be seeing a doctor soon. I am thankful that my husband takes turn taking care of Morgan. And I am thankful that I am calm to get down to relax.
When I say relax, it is not usually laying down in bed and watch a movie.
It is often me like now writing/journaling, letting my stress out in my favourite activity.
It is often me sitting in the corner of my room in my comfortable armchair, holding a book, and chuckle over lines of written thoughts that were written over 100 years ago and found how relatable they were.
It is often me sipping from my cup of warm tea with honey, in my warm slippers, laying in my papasan chair, looking outside aimlessly, cuddling with my dogs.
It is me painting or drawing with watercolours in my colouring books.
It is me trying my best watering my plants.
It is me putting my headphone on to block out all the noise going on around me.
It is me putting on the VR headset and dance with BeatSaber.
And yes, sometimes, it’s me laying on my bed, doing nothing.
These moments of peace, of nothingness, of meness are so important to me.
When I am overwhelmed, I find it is so important to detach myself from everything with these activities so that I gain my footing and lift myself up.
This reset helps recharge my energy and renew my perspectives on things happening in my life.
I want to travel a bit more in the future, that’s something I haven’t been able to do yet. But before that, I feel that I need to do more self-work so that I am more grounded and healthy to take on the world. And these breaks or rest days or even just rest moments are so beneficial that I won’t let go off.
I am still on my path of building better relaxing habits. But I am proud of where I am now.
Have a great day <3
Thao