I’m bored, so bored I don’t know how to deal with it. The foresight of so many things I still need to do is threatening and unappealing but then again they’re all necessary.
Sitting in my office on the 6th floor of a wonderful building I can see people walking outside, enjoying
the sun and I wonder... why on earth am I still inside this building? My recent visits to the sauna have relieved me a lot but still... I felt tired and depressed.
Yesterday was a similar situation and so at the end of the day I decided to take a small tour to the ocean. At dusk everything was nice and quiet. There was a football match on tv so the roads were peacefull and I spent two blissful hours on the beach with no one else but my friend Dane.
He told me that he was feeling the same, there were still so many things he had to do in the following weeks but he didn’t feel like doing any of them. It made me think. We all know the basic ‘Winter depression’ but might there be something as a ‘Spring kick-back’?
I mean look at us. The weather is becoming nice and warm again, we’d rather spend our time sitting on a terrace than in offices and classrooms. These are all things which would constitute the Spring kickback. Maybe the end of the winter is also influencing our behaviour, our feelings. The cold and the snow are no longer upon us, we realize the summer holiday is near again and then it hits us! Another 2 modules of
school to go!! Another 2 modules of hard work, tests, resits, problems etc. before us. Two modules no free times and obligations.
But wouldn’t it be great to look at it differently? How about introducing the ‘Spring Jump-start’? A positive approach on what lies before us, a friendlier way of seeing the work ahead of you. It might be a sore consolation but it could just possibly be your last resource of energy. The last straw of happiness when you
need it.
Think of it this way: Just two more modules to go before we have a holiday. For me it will be the first real holiday in 2 years time! I am looking forward to it! Believe me, let me finish these two modules and I am off!!\
So it completely depends on how you look at it. You can have a ‘Spring kick-back’ or you can have a ‘Spring
jump-start’! It’s up to you which one you prefer. Choice: be depressed?? Or be relieved!
Make it easy on yourself and try to run those last few miles with spirit and energy before you crash and burn in the sun on a beach with a cocktail in your hand!
Good Luck!!
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