Monday, October 18, 2010

Two steps forward, five or six backward.

I don't know what it is, but I sure don't feel that I am making progress.  I've never really been a baby steps kind of person.  I like to take things off in chunks.  I like to see progress.  Identify it.  Analyze it.  And most importantly, understand it.  As of now, I have no idea what is going on.  I know that I can wake up and not feel depressed.  I know that I don't feel the urge to cry constantly.  I know that I have accepted how things are and for the most part realize that I can not change anything except for myself.  It's so obvious but very hard to fully believe.  There is always a part of me that wants to say that I can influence others.  Not the case.

So today, I am working on living to make me a better person.  Nothing else really.  I am focusing on work, exercise, some studying and then the remainder is me time.  I have let myself grow stagnant and it has made me an unhappy person.  It has also, I believe, destroyed part of the foundation for the best relationship I have had in my life.  The only thing I can take from that is the lesson to not have it happen again.  A happier me = a happier everyone.  Now, the hard part is enacting this change, because as I have mentioned, I don't like baby steps.  I have lost 15 lbs in the last 10 days but I feel like that is nothing since I still have a little belly.  I have been running every day and last time I played soccer I had more energy that I have had in years.  But I didn't hoist the team on my shoulders and carry home the victory.  I need to sit back and learn to be happy with the little victories and not expect myself to be transformed overnight.

Also, I took a GRE practice test and that was depressing.  Apparently I don't remember how to do math.  I went through and got all the questions right, but it took twice as long as it should have and most of the time I had to use process of elimination.  I have no idea how to solve for X anymore.  Graahhhh!!  Why do I need math if I want to go to graduate school for English?  Lame.

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