Monday blues

[jessruth]

I don't wanna go...I know that's not exactly the best attitude for a teacher to have on a Monday morning, but I don't exactly feel like a teacher lately. I feel more like a kid who's afraid of the big bullies at school. I am absolutely drowning here, and the people who are supposed to be helping me are only making it worse. And I have felt

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Rallying Cries

[mtgat]

"If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe!" - rallying cry of the weird

"Not in the face! Not in the face!" - rallying cry of the realistic

Re: Rallying Cries

[jessruth]

Thank you for these. A much-needed laugh at the end of a(nother) lousy day.

[roozle]

Uh, I had a lot of trouble with the rallying cry thing this morning too. Must be Mondays.

*sympathy*

[jessruth]

Hope your day went better than mine. So much for rallying cries. *sigh*

[firstfrost]

It's not really a rallying cry, but a state of mind:

It's not supposed to be easy. We wouldn't learn anything if it was easy. Somehow, we accidentally get into a mindset that says "once I'm done with X (where X can be college, or Unified, or "this project"), things will be easy." And sometimes they're easy for a bit, but that's the reward, not the goal. The classes that taught me the most - they weren't always the hardest ones, but they weren't the trivial ones either. The times when my life was hard - those times taught me more than the times when everything went well.

Difficulties are problem sets for the soul, and there's always more to learn.

[jessruth]

Ah, the old character-building approach. If it doesn't kill me, it'll make me stronger? I'm not sure if I'm grown-up enough to wrap my brain around that one just yet.

[firstfrost]

Well, the trick with this sort of philosophy is you don't actually have to believe it. Sometimes you can pretend you believe it, and then it makes you appear to be noble and mature - if you can pretend it to yourself, then you can convince yourself you're noble and mature!

Carefully applied self-delusion is a very useful tool. :)

[hammercock]

Yeah, I felt that way this morning, too. And I've been hearing things at work like, "There's really no slow period to speak of in the near future," which is just so VERY encouraging, let me tell you. *sigh*

*hugs* *hands you SCUBA gear*