Everyone is dead or diagnosed. Life is doable again.
Posted by Rebecca Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:05:00 GMT
People notice when your stress level decreases. Several of my faculty have commented on how I look happier than I have recently.
My response to them has been that this was the semester from hell. I was in a senior thesis class and a lot of difficult things arose in my personal life as well.
I think having finality to several of these things has helped. I told one professor that everyone was dead or diagnosed and receiving treatment, so it made things a lot easier to handle.
Dead or diagnosed. It sounds incredibly grim but really, it’s true. I’ve had several chances at emotional catharsis and I think they have helped. I hate to say this, but it’s more relieving to cry after someone has died than to sit around and worry about when they might die. You get closure, and closure is good.
There are only a couple of things left right now that I need closure on, but I can handle a couple. I just can’t handle a million.
So I have a couple of things to handle. Life is doable again.