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Of Emotional Immersion and Moving On

Hello again, readers. I think I have relatively come out of the "pit of despair" that is a couple of posts back and is, for the most part, back to a normal-er state of mind. In this post, I want to share something that is not about self-pity and regret for once, but I just want to write it down for my future reference (or maybe you readers - if any - can find it useful). Moving on is not easy (as you readers can see from the previous 2 posts). You have to accept the fact that things are not the way they were, and most likely, are not going to be the way they were ever again. I somehow, somewhat managed to get there in the past few days (or at least maintain it for the past few days until now). It was especially tough a week ago or so. I think I was in the brink of depression (or maybe I was already in one). I didn't contemplate suicide, but the feeling of sadness was so overwhelming that I can't really function. For example, at work, I practically only do something pr