SELF PITY IS A DISTRACTION!
Lost a job? Lost a loved one? Failed at a task? Failed relationships? Wasted efforts? Heartbreaks? Betrayals? Negative feedback? What do you do when you feel like your energy tank is fully drained? A few days back, I was down. I had a piece of sad news to deal with, negative feedback from two important areas of my life that I have been putting so much effort and concrete hopes in, leaving me extremely drained. I talked to a friend of mine and after all the advice she gave, all I could say was “my energy level is 0.0001%” (I decided to keep that .0001% as a reserve, lol). I went ahead to tell her how I was waiting to get home so I could unleash the tears I had been saving up all day. On my way home, I decided to reflect deeply (thanks to traffic) and I told myself that if those tears I was planning on going to shed were tears of self-pity, then it didn’t make sense (see me analyzing my feelings, lol ) and of course, it did not. On getting home, I had so much to do that I did n