RE: Motivation
In response to your letter to me . Dear Rina, I think it's a little uncanny how you write to me about one of my core insecurities. Something that I've learned about myself over the past few years is how easy it is for me to succumb to my depression and anxiety in this particular area. I can easily get into this cycle of not feeling good enough, not doing enough, and not being enough; this is what propelled me in my undergrad to do so many things. And while I don't regret doing so much in my undergrad, I felt burnt out a lot of the time. I found myself in these vast mood swings and pushing myself to the brink of exhaustion and overall it just didn't feel like a good, healthy way to live my life. I'm now on the other side of that spectrum where I feel like my life is somewhat stagnant. I'm in graduate school, I have a part-time job at UH, and I live with my boyfriend. I'm in a very steady routine of going to work, going to school, and coming home. I find...