In an attempt to cope better with Friday nights alone, I have started to schedule time for wellness, or some will call it, well-being.
Today this is easy to do because I spent the day hiking in the outdoors on a cool spring day with a good friend that lets me say and be who I am, and likes me because of it. She is a rare gem!
I have spent the week with certain necessary deprivations, and have made a few exceptions. I gave up sugar, coffee, and wine, but it was a tough week to start a new 60 day habit, what with Easter candy, and leftover bird’s nests from my kid’s generous giveaway at school. I did have a tea with condensed milk (should have used that up before starting!) and tonight I ate both cocoa oatmeal coconut haystacks with Easter eggs instead of saving one for later. Still, I ate late at night only once, and the overall balance of eating was NOT bingeing. Win win!
I like to breakdown personality traits (we too often throw around traits like pathologies) and we are both introverts, so that’s fun too. But there is no breakdown of what makes a person happy, and we both recognized the need for a person (especially in an institution) to be in the sunshine, and feel the wind, and smell the grass, and taste food. I may not be energized by people, and I may not be energized alone, but I am recharged by a walk in the woods, with running water, and wind gusts. I am recharged by sunshine and exercise in the fresh air. I am recharged by the company of a good friend. I am renewed by the sacred crossing with a red fox (who dislikes walking on squishy mud as much as any human!) and a herd of eight grazing deer.
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