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Maybe it’s a good thing to get to the end of your tether.
I’ve been doing that a lot recently. Pulling my hair out if you will. Feeling overwhelmed by the constant second-guessing of myself and my decisions.
I reached peak frustration with myself a few days ago.
I was in town and I’d decided that morning I was going to get back into reading. It’s something that’s dropped off in the last 6 months and I feel like I’ve stopped learning. I’m convinced that’s because I’ve stopped reading.
I want to feel energized again, you know excited to learn stuff.
So I decided to purchase a book. Any book. I had no book in mind but I would go to one of the many bookstores and grab whichever book called to me.
So off I went. To the first bookstore.
There I hurried up the stairs, to be greeted by the ‘biography’ section — lovely stuff, my favorite. I browsed. Picked up a couple. Read the blurb. Put them back down. Hmm… maybe science. I browsed. Picked up a couple. Read the blub. Put them back down.
Okay… fine.
Onto the next section. And the next section. And the next. A few piqued my interest. Not enough though to buy. And then I got in my own head.
