I still am very much considering the justice in providing academic leniencies on account of depression. Like, being given an extra day for this math homework.
My feeling? Right or wrong, somebody here or there, now or later, will stigmatize you. And just or not, someone will look and say "yeah--slacker--using illness for an excuse".
I am totally the worst for taking my own advice. But I try the "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine goes down" approach. Or like the weight loss folk say--reward yourself with just a SLIGHT treat. Do what you like to do--then what you need to do--or visa versa. I've got my job hunting regimen--an application a day, or something like that--and I do my blogging. (My secret hobby? the ultimate geek refuge--fanfiction. Which show/movie? Aha--my secret)
Screwtape (the C.S. Lewis character) gloats how he was able to keep the humans from doing both what they needed to do and what they wanted to do. They just spent their lives staring at the 4 walls. The demons, it is said, hate us pursuing something we genuinely enjoy for its own sake (for NOT the crowd appeal) as much as they hate holiness.
And I can't speak for you--but I know what it's like for me to feel like sh!t. Grace to you.
@wrybreadspread - That was the first thing I had to teach myself come college. I was raised on the whole, nose-to-the-grindstone, get-good-grades-no-matter-what-nothing-else-matters type of parenting.
So, my approach to much of life was just - get through. If you make it to the end, accomplish the goal, then that's the key.
Then it dawned on me that there's another such "mission" for life right afterwards. And, believe it or not, depression and how you're feeling eventually get into how well you function day to day. And building up this stress from just focusing on getting to the end no matter the costs was not helping.
So, yes, definitely do what you like as well. Maintaining your emotional well-being is just as important as anything else.
Ahh, I haven't read fanfiction in ages. Hope the show/movie is good.
I always dabbled in Harry Potter (it was what everyone did my age, plus I was young) but I tried taking a look at Catcher In the Rye. Sadly, they missed the idea behind the book and focused almost entirely on the style. I've always wanted to see someone attempt Paradise Lost but perhaps I'm getting too fantastical now.
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My feeling? Right or wrong, somebody here or there, now or later, will stigmatize you. And just or not, someone will look and say "yeah--slacker--using illness for an excuse".
I am totally the worst for taking my own advice. But I try the "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine goes down" approach. Or like the weight loss folk say--reward yourself with just a SLIGHT treat. Do what you like to do--then what you need to do--or visa versa. I've got my job hunting regimen--an application a day, or something like that--and I do my blogging. (My secret hobby? the ultimate geek refuge--fanfiction. Which show/movie? Aha--my secret)
Screwtape (the C.S. Lewis character) gloats how he was able to keep the humans from doing both what they needed to do and what they wanted to do. They just spent their lives staring at the 4 walls. The demons, it is said, hate us pursuing something we genuinely enjoy for its own sake (for NOT the crowd appeal) as much as they hate holiness.
And I can't speak for you--but I know what it's like for me to feel like sh!t. Grace to you.
@wrybreadspread - That was the first thing I had to teach myself come college. I was raised on the whole, nose-to-the-grindstone, get-good-grades-no-matter-what-nothing-else-matters type of parenting.
So, my approach to much of life was just - get through. If you make it to the end, accomplish the goal, then that's the key.
Then it dawned on me that there's another such "mission" for life right afterwards. And, believe it or not, depression and how you're feeling eventually get into how well you function day to day. And building up this stress from just focusing on getting to the end no matter the costs was not helping.
So, yes, definitely do what you like as well. Maintaining your emotional well-being is just as important as anything else.
Ahh, I haven't read fanfiction in ages. Hope the show/movie is good.
I always dabbled in Harry Potter (it was what everyone did my age, plus I was young) but I tried taking a look at Catcher In the Rye. Sadly, they missed the idea behind the book and focused almost entirely on the style. I've always wanted to see someone attempt Paradise Lost but perhaps I'm getting too fantastical now.
@thirst2 - just a short thing
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5589915/1/An_Ardent_Admirer
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