My Life, The Juggling Act

Huxter — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:25:58 +0000

About a year ago I suffered a complete mental breakdown. I was stressed, stretched far too thin and just generally in a bad state of mind. After lots of Ativan, some intense therapy and even more intense thinking I came to the conclusion that I was doing it wrong; I had been living life incorrectly by living for other people. I did what everybody else needed before I even thought about myself. I sacrificed my time, emotional energy & even personal possesions to make people like me. People who didn’t even give me the time of day when I needed to talk, or willingly give up half a delicious homemade something had I asked. People I didn’t even really like. Suffice to say I stopped and at that point had a lot of free time on my hands.

What to do, what to do? Well, what about aaaaaallllll that stuff I didn’t do because I was too busy? Like getting in shape (admittedly still working on that one…), actually learning some useful stuff (like I say in my bio…entirely self taught…)….

I ended up bookmarking The Complete Flake’s Guide To Getting Things Done by Sonia Simone. I didn’t read it, at least not immdiaitely. OK, long story short: this article changed my life. I went from not even planning on finishing school to craving a college degree in either chemistry or stagecraft.

Harvard Extension class every Wednesday
Building/painting set for Jeckyll & Hyde The Musical
Being in Jeckyll & Hyde The Musical
Re-teaching myself physics & chem (because concussions are really as serious as they say)
Writing a 15 minute one act play for school

And that list doesn’t even include the things that I want to do.

Teep McGee

My Life, The Juggling Act