A terrible day of bad cough & breathlessness. Just when it can't choose a better timing for my topsy-turvy gastric, my asthma kicks in to join the fray. Can’t gym. Feels lousy. Was asking why aren’t the inhalers working?! Everyone & every doctor I went to told the same. That I am a complete victim of stress. Emotional stress & definitely suffering from a burnout.
After away for a whole year, not only am I not recharged, I feel exhausted & suffering a burnout. I voice my intent to quit my job (not as if I can) another voice came into my head berating me for my insanity. My mom calls me a big "risk taker", burning my candle at both ends, embarking on too many a thing at the same time. As she commented about me before - setting the world on fire comes with risks. Unfortunately we usually don't realize this until smoke gets in our eyes.
Burnout is a condition caused by unbalance : too much work or responsibility, too little time to do it, over too long a period. We have been cruising on the fast lane but we've been running on fumes rather than on fuel. Often we think that burnout is something that just happens to other people - to workaholics & perfectionists. But it could be anyone, experiencing changes & experiencing loss.
Burnout often begins with illness you can't shake to chronic fatique - and is usually accompanied by depression. Guess I am going through such possibilities. When you are suffering from burnout, you are the only person on earth who can help because you are the only one who can make the lifestyle changes that need to be made : to call a halt, to take a slower path, to make a detour. When you have no more strength left, you have no choice but to rely on the strength of a saner Power to restore you to Wholeness. In the pursuit of our souls, Spirit takes no prisoners.
Was talking to a few friends & colleagues of mine. All mentioned about the changes they see in me. Seemed to them I have turn to be more solemn & melancholic. But all will soon be well. I hope.
DaRkAnGeL'S WoRdS Of WiSdOm :
"Indeed we should not take any credits for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. Many a time you make a wrong choice out of a spur of anger. You believe you can't change. Take heed. It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to it's master passion. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - now that is genius."
1 comment:
I like the way you were saying:
"When you are suffering from burnout, you are the only person on earth who can help because you are the only one who can make the lifestyle changes that need to be made : to call a halt, to take a slower path, to make a detour."
Others can't do much to help, except for ourselves. 'YOU' determines the paths ahead, it either you brave through the rocky roads or stormy sea, and travel long enough to find another new route ahead. Path of life is never easy, bumpy roads, rocky paths, or even stormy sea. In path of life can never be smooth sailing, the more quiet & smooth path you take, the more danger might be awaiting ahead.
It really ourselves to either slow down our journey, make a change to it or stop following the road ahead instead, turning into a lane that has brand new adventure awaiting.
Changes, it is good or bad? Either way, how we want to perceive it.
Easier to say than done, to move on and accept the challenges ahead.
But isn't our life is always full of changes?
Learning to love my life as it is, occasionally amendments do kick in to make life either better or worst, it all depend on how I want it to be, better or worst? I choose to love my life more (hopefully, for me I can stay as positive as possible!!!)
Cheeersss!!
Love, Winter Angel
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