Who’s dream are you chasing?
Mental health can often make you cling to spaces, friends, relationships, jobs; that make you feel comfortable. As I learn more about myself and observe mental health in society, I feel it’s easy to become “stuck” in day to day routines and view such to be a safety net. When I write my blog posts I never really expect everyone to agree with me. So by all means, this may be nonsense for you, and what if it isn’t? What if, you’re working a 5 day week in a job that bores the shit out of you and you want to progress, climb the career ladder, but your anxiety is telling you to ‘sit the fuck down’? What if you’re in a relationship right now that only feeds negative energy and you feel trapped in a cycle of wasted moments and opportunities? We, on the outside looking in, would want to shake you and tell you to quite frankly WAKE UP and say “Your physical health tends to be your priority so why isn’t your mental health?” You simply cannot fuel a car without the actual existence of fuel. You cannot practice wellbeing without actually BEING PRESENT and feeling well. I know personally of the daily ‘I wish I’, ‘should I?’ and ‘could I?’. The wish to try a new gym, to wear something I usually wouldn’t, to change my routine, to throw myself into a new social situation. Except these wishes often do not amount to anything. I sit there, in thought, cooking up some anxiety and decide that today is simply not the day for change. You’ll notice that you often tell yourself to be ‘grateful’ to have the job, friendship, relationship that you have, considering you’re “mentally unwell and all that”. That this IS THE ACHIEVEMENT. This is the best it will get for you. You can’t achieve more incase the stress makes you unwell again. It’s just not true. I would like to educate you on how this is another example of mental health and it’s control over our lives and feelings of purpose. Overcoming mental health is about challenging fears, uncomfortable situations that eventually become comfy, and being able to stand up and say “I deserve more”. No one is there to fight for your dream; it’s all you. Mental health will tell you the dream is not yours to have - but that’s the illness right there. Don’t lose hope.
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