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Hallo my dear friends! It has been a while again, and I’m sure you can tell from the title it has a little bit to do with burn out. Now, just so we’re all on the same page, I am a very ambitious person, and a perfectionist. You can see where this is going, I’m sure. Because of my ambition and perfectionism, I pushed myself to accomplish a lot of things that are quite surprising for my age, especially having school to do. As you should know by now, (If you read my posts), I aspire to be an author and storyteller. I am currently working on two stories, one by myself and another with my cousin, Star (Her real name will be kept anonymous). Well, not exactly currently<\/em>. We will get to why in just a moment. Because of my dreams, I decided I would work hard to accomplish a lot. And that’s good, I still do. But I took too big a bite. I planned out an exact schedule and routine for how I would do everything, and how much I would do. But I fell behind. I had weeks where I just didn’t feel as motivated, and I labeled it as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Laziness<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why was I being so lazy? Why did I just binge YouTube all day instead of doing what I was supposed to? But those weeks passed, and I continued with my schedules and plans again. I would feel great, and feel like those ‘lazy weeks’<\/mark> were all in the past. I was over it now. Nope. It came back. Why was it coming back? Am I not working hard enough? I know, it’s because I got too weak and peaked at my recommendations in YouTube and then went on a binging frenzy. That’s why. I’ll keep my phone away. I get out of it again, I go on. No, it’s back. Why is this happening? Why can’t I just get it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Right?!”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps some of you have felt like this before. It was really tiring, and so, so<\/em> frustrating. I always felt like I was messing it all up somehow, like I wasn’t getting something right. I kept pushing myself, trying to work on stories, art projects, my channel and more. Because of the strict schedule I had, I felt like I never really progressed, only fell behind. I had fallen into the dangerous trap of overworking myself. I kept my eyes on the prize so intently, I ignored everything else around me. I thought resting was being lazy, and I didn’t want to do that. While I was working on all my projects, I was behind closed doors almost all the time, I began neglecting friends, family and even myself. I wanted to be accomplished, to make something great that I will be able to be proud of. I didn’t realize I was letting a precious gift slip right through my fingers. Life. I was completely tired, angry and I felt alone. But I wouldn’t give up. I now knew something needed to change, because this wasn’t working at all. Finally, I looked at rest in a different perspective. I was reluctant to rest because I was scared I wouldn’t do everything I wanted to do, that it would take me longer to accomplish something. I wanted to do things that a lot of people my age didn’t do, I wanted to be hardworking and determined. I still want this, but now I realize I need to acknowledge that I’m human<\/em>. I was trying to be a super-human, a perfect being that didn’t need rest and could work for hours upon hours. But I’m not that, and I do need rest. Everyone does, even you. So basically what I am saying is I have been burnt out, and it’s why I haven’t been uploading. And this month, March, I finally<\/em> decided to face my fears, and only focus on my Channel and this Website, putting my other projects aside, just for this little while. I also want to acknowledge that it will take a long time before I settle into a good routine and have good habits, because I have many bad ones, such as binging YouTube, haha. So I’m forcing myself to walk, and not run, because I can’t run. Not yet. I also want to remind everyone reading this, you, to rest. We physically cannot live without rest, you need to be patient with yourself. And this is not the only thing I want to talk about, rest is important because it is part of life. Rest isn’t lounging on the couch, it’s going outside for a walk, staring out the window at the clouds, having tea. It is spending time with family and friends. It’s living life. Work is important too, of course, we were created to work, to use our hands and brains. But even God rested on the seventh day. So why do we keep thinking rest is useless and time-wasting? At least, I know I fall into that unknowingly many times. Even though I have had rest as a priority for a while now, only a week ago I was going through a time where I was burnt out, trying to overwork myself again, getting frustrated because I was falling behind in school. And for a couple years now I’ve practically never fallen behind in school. But I now know I cannot find my joy in my work, in the world, or even perhaps my family and friends. But I will find it in God. You may not be a Christian as you read this, but I’m sure you could still find this helpful. In the future I’ll probably talk about this subject more, and make it make more sense, haha. But thank you for taking the time to read this post, and remember to rest and take care of yourself! Have a good rest-of-your day everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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