Cortisol Free Vacation!

Hello everybody, welcome back to the blog after more than a week of my abandonment. While I abandoned the blog, there are a few things I had the good fortune to really focus on this past week, like,

1) Sleeping for a whole 8 hours  – Eventhough it felt weird initially to get a full eight hour long sleep, I must say that I enjoyed it to the fullest. I had no necessity to wake up early and start writing  hence when the opportunity arrived, I just swaddled myself to sleep for an extra hour or two.

2) Binge watching t.v show – Finally I’ve finished watching Grey’s Anatomy and let me tell you, I HATED it! The show, which started out great when I used to watch has somehow turned out to be so depressing that I needed a whole day to recuperate from it. But the good news is, I’m done watching t.v shows alone. It’s too sad to watch t.v shows alone and Bigshot and I have started watching ‘The Game of Thrones’ untill ‘The Stranger Things’ new season comes back. But I must say, so far Game of Thrones has become our new favorite show.

3) I’ve mastered my culinary skills – Yes, I was a master culinary chef before too, I know, but now I’m really fast at it. I can cook a meal for two in just an hour. In fact, I should be known as the express master chef from now. But how is it related to writing the blog you may ask? It’s not, but somehow the stress of writing every day had decreased my confidence to do anything. When I made sure that I broke that pattern, I felt much better.
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4) I caught up on my reading and drawing – Do you remember those amateur doodles of mine? Even though they were hardly good, I had enjoyed drawing them. I hadn’t drawn in a very long time and the energy to simply sit and wonder what to sketch gave me the much required peace. And I caught up on my reading too, which however has no relation to blogging but I read A LOT!

5) I managed to stay away from social media for a while – It felt like I was always trying to catch up with everything that’s happening around me that I felt like it was creating so much of added stress to the already stressed out body that the cortisol, the stress induced hormone in my body started stressing out!

So as I write down this post today, I’m not stressed out and there is no cortisol in my body, okay maybe a few but not as much as I had 3 weeks before. Because 3 weeks ago I was like a hamster running on a wheel without having any idea in which direction it’s running towards. I kept writing everyday because I had to write every day and in that process of straining myself to write every single day I somehow stopped enjoying to write and it became some sort of mundane work. And because I stopped enjoying writing, the one thing that truly made me happy, I slowly stopped enjoying everything else I did. So that vicious circle of life had to stop and I decided to take a vacation from writing. To be honest, It felt really good initially when I stopped writing and did everything I have listed down above and focused all my energy on making sure I felt better and enjoyed those free time. However, the break that I took towards the end felt like a torture wherein I started to itch and miss my writing time. But time is a freaky little thing which changes your perspective every second of a minute and I waited patiently to start. I think it’s not simply about writing, but everything you do in your life should be enjoyed a 100 percent. For example, If you enjoy coding like Bigshot here, that is never going to bore you. Right? BUT if you stress yourself over deadlines and targets and forget that it is to be enjoyed, then what is the point of it all? I was having a meltdown when writing felt like a monotonous job and not something I used to love working on. So the vacation I took from it gave me the appropriate time to enjoy other aspects of my life and also to understand the importance of taking it slow. The meltdown I had the day I stopped writing made me understand that taking a vacation from things that you are passionate about doesn’t make it go away. Like Bigshot told me that day, It’s okay to call in timeout to things that you love doing. If you love chocolate would you eat it fast and eat till you get sick of it OR will you savor the taste and enjoy eating that small piece of chocolate every day? If you are doing something that you love or something that you don’t love, whatever it may be, take a few steps back and give yourself a break. Maybe you will get a better perspective or it will just give you the much needed vacation! 🙂 On that note, have an awesome day and a good night everyone!