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How To Focus When Your World Is Crumbling
When sadness takes over despite life going forward
In the past week and a half, my personal life has crumbled. I lost my grandmother and broke up with my girlfriend.
Which means that in some part, I was the cause, in another, I just had to stand there and endure. This isn’t the first time life shook my world and probably won’t be the last. Nor was I the first one to experience this.
To dig deeper into what happened will be for another time, another day. But it made me realize once more the importance of self-awareness and self-control.
After working on myself for more than a year, this tough period is demonstrating to me how I can continue my life despite rough patches.
If what happened recently occurred before I started working on myself, I would have been unable to do any kind of productive activity. My mind would have been all over the place. But that’s not the case anymore.
Sadness is overwhelming
In a way, I lost two loved ones in the span of a week. I did decide off my own will to break up with my girlfriend but not loving her anymore wasn’t the reason.
And due to the above, I lost appetite, became sleep-deprived and kept crying the majority…
