Moving from Summer to Autumn and then Autumn to Winter is hard.
Even though while living in England everyone knows that the weather isn’t sensational and in reality we don’t get the best summers weather-wise but the actual concept of summer is there.
Light evenings and bright mornings somehow make things a little easier.
Autumn is all fun and games while the leaves on the trees turn all the lovely Instagrammable colours of yellow, orange and brown but then they drop and all trees are left naked.
I’ve not worked out the exact point of this blogpost but I think writing whilst feeling demotivated sparks some kind of interest in me.
Now we’re slowly (rather quickly actually) approaching winter all the stresses come out.
Third year of uni starts properly kicking in, deadlines don’t seem to far away, thinking of and buying 100’s of Christmas presents starts creeping up on you. Hats off to those people who start buying Christmas presents in the summer, great idea.
But all in all, as fun as the build up to Christmas is, you still miss summer.
However, I think everyone, especially stress-heads like me need to take some time out at this transitional time of year. If its even the afternoon, just take some time off and read a book, watch a film and pretend you don’t have deadlines or any other responsibilities. I think people (me) beat themselves up about not being productive or “busy” too much.
I read a blogpost not too long back, about how we glamourise “busyness”, being busy and rushed off your feet is cool and you look like you have your life together. Constantly having a filled calendar, yeah I’m probably exactly that person who thinks so, but it’s important to remember that being busy can make you exhausted, sometimes sad and just leave you feeling a little bit deflated at the end of it all.
So take some time off, drink a hot chocolate (or hot beverage of choice) and relax for a little bit 🙂 x
colineplaszczykowska 