Lesson 15) Do Not Get Behind In Anything

Let it be work, life, or posts...

I have slacked off the past few days, but not because I've been lazy or had nothing to say, but I've actually been very busy with a whole lot of things going on. I am sorry that the updates haven't been coming on time, but I will catch up today and do my best not to get behind again.

See, this is why you can't let one thing slip. It's very difficult to catch up on things, and you end up stressing yourself out more than you need. This leads me to today's lesson.

For about two weeks, I have been out of the loop with part of my group. Two weeks ago I was incredibly busy, as all professors tend to decide on one week together where they want absolutely everything done. That was two weeks ago for me, which may have led to the problem of the following week, my crippling cold that left me just above dead for about five days. These two weeks I didn't see my friends a whole lot, for obvious germ-y reasons. These past few days, however, I've been back in with the crowd.

At first, I thought they were mad at me. There were a whole lot of jokes that I didn't get, and there were lots of stories they were sharing that I didn't get the relevance of... I was worried that I had been pushed out and that I couldn't get back in. I was upset, and drifted from them just a little bit.
This is never the answer, and I needed a swift kick in the butt from Sara to realize that what was in my head was not the case at all. I had once gone on a rant about a girl that was mad we didn't tell her all the new jokes she had missed while she was in class, and now here I was doing the same thing. I almost pushed people away because of something that was none of our faults. All I had to do was jump back in, ask a few questions and be around.

Now- do NOT use this as an excuse not to do your work. That's not what I mean at all. There is a nice balance, simply that my balance went out of whack for a while and I had to redistribute so that I was still getting my work done and hanging out with my friends (which is a lot easier when your body isn't trying to cough up half a lung).

If you feel left out of something or some group that you weren't before, don't automatically assume that you or the other person/people are at fault. Somethings just happen. Your life might be on pause or autopilot-hyperspeed for a while, but that doesn't mean that everyone else's is, and you have to remember that. You see only through your own eyes, so you can't possibly know what speed everyone else is on that week unless you speak up and ask. I didn't remember this, and I almost put myself into a royal pouting mess before it was brought to my attention that would be stupid.

Here's to working hard and playing hard, and making sure to do both!

Curl Girl, out!