02/22/2024
I SLEPT THE WHOLE WEEK, AND THAT'S FINE!
This week is our reading week in school. Reading week is basically a vacation week happening in the middle of each term. In contrast to its name, reading week is the time when students and instructors can relax and do whatever they want. Of course, you can make this week productive by having a headstart in your upcoming assignments but instructors would recommend you to relax and enjoy this week. Now, if you are an avid reader, then take advantage because you can read whatever book you'd like to read 😉
Other students would take advantage of this week to work more hours, binge watch shows they missed because of school and work, and travel too (if you have time and money). But for me, I slept. I just want to clarify though that I didn't sleep 24/7. But most of my days this week, I was just sleeping. Why? Because I want to protect my mental health. For the past few months, I was having anxiety to the point that I started having insomnia. Yes, there was a time when I needed the help of sleeping pills just so I could get quality sleep. I can lie down, and close my eyes in a dark room but my mind would go haywire and would not allow me to have quality sleep. Even my health app would scream and would prompt that I needed to have fair sleep because me levels were dangerous. Thank God, sleeping pills helped me but I couldn't take it for a longer period of time so I had to rely on my natural ways of having better sleep.
School and work helped me a lot because I was usually tired and by the end of the day, I'm knocked out. But the flip side of it, my body and mind suffer. I am not physically or mentally sick (I think?), but I can feel exhaustion creeping in and I just want this lifestyle to be over. Hopefully, when I finish this April, the change will happen. But for now, I will sleep my reading week away. .
P.S. This doesn't mean that I didn't do anything else. As I said, I am protecting my mental health so instead of reading school books and doing assignments, I went out on a trip and spent time with family and friends, spent a whole day with my son, and watch my Kdrama shows that I missed the past few months. And oh, I am playing Plants Vs Zombies again 😉
By the way, here's a photo I took while on the road from our trip 🫶
