The Best Advice

Last week, a few things in real life went a little bit astray, leaving me feeling stressed, nauseated, and sick. All I wanted to do was stay in bed forever and ever and not have to face the world. I had never felt like that before, and it scared me¹. Even though I knew why I felt emotionally drained and unequipped to deal with life, it was still an awful, awful feeling, to not want to get up and get on with my daily life. All I wanted to do was hide in my bed and not leave my room, possibly forever.

Everyone has days like that, ones where the desire to stay in bed and avoid the world is greater than the desire to get up and proceed to deal with daily life. Only those days don’t occur to me very often, if at all, and I was freaked out that I was feeling this way. I had no idea what to do, or how worried I should be, or even if something was wrong with me. Filled with doubt and uncertainty, I decided that I should call my mother and ask her for advice, because I was terrified of what all of this meant, if it meant anything.

I explained my situation to my mom, and she gave me the best advice I could have gotten in that situation. She told me that I needed to get out of bed and face the world, because the longer I stayed in bed and shied away from everyone and everything, the bigger and scarier it would seem. I had to take steps to be strong, and get over whatever fear I had of facing the world and just march on with life. And even though I hoped she would tell me it was okay to stay in bed forever and ever, she was right. I couldn’t let things affect me to the point where it crippled the way I deal with my daily lifestyle. And the first step to doing that was getting out of bed.

It was really the best advice.

1. Not to worry though, it was only a very brief phase and everything has since worked itself out. [↩]

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