Archive for February 2017

February: The Review

February is over, another month has flown by and contrary to what I had believed at the beginning...

WR| Frustrated

The last full week of the month has passed and our time to accomplish all of those goals...

Of the Bookshelf| Ugly Love

Tate Collins meets Miles Archer when she moves in back with her brother, something doesn't feel right as...

I feel like every month or so I get in this funk of not wanting to do anything but sleep, it usually happens after a few weeks of tough work without stopping or having a proper rest, or even after I recover from sickness or recently had a panic attack or went through something that wasn't pleasant.
The worst part is that you don't have a way of preventing it, one morning you wake up and you feel like even when you have things to do, everything can wait until after your nap or long sleep, and even if you manage to get something done it's almost like a reflex, you do it because you have to.
It even makes you rethink where are you going, why are you working so hard or why aren't you getting "enough" results from the hard work you've been doing and it snowballs into you thinking that maybe you are not enough or at least not good.
And before you know it you are going to be in this terrible mood, not wanting to do anything, wanting to be more but not knowing where to start.
From my experience I've learned that there are two types of "funk, the one that last like three days but after a good nap you feel good to go or the one that takes a little bit more to get through, this is the kind we struggle the most out of the two.
Unfortunately there's no special recipe to get over this, it all depends of you and what you do, if you are creative, going for a walk or visiting new museums may help, if you are an athlete, doing something new in your routine may help, if you are a student, changing study places may work, but it all depends on what you are used to doing.
One thing I would say helps, it's changing something in your routine, sometimes you get in a funk because everything gets repetitive or because you feel like something is lacking, it's a way you mind tells you "you need to do something new".
There are the little things that count, but in case everything fails, call someone, ask for help, being in a funk is not nice, you don't feel like yourself, but at the end, just like everything, it has a solution and you shouldn't feel discouraged.

Mayte.