Importance of physical and mental health

It's been a while since I've updated with another post. Man oh man has the world been falling apart.
We've got the pandemic, almost having World War III, and riots this week from the anniversary of George Floyd being murdered by a white cop.

My heart just bleeds out for everyone affected in our world today. It's completely heartbreaking, every time I use any social media app, I just see more heartbreak. Justice has been made though, with the cop finally being arrested. It's crazy this will all be in history books someday.













As for me, I'm hanging in there and being forced out of my daily habits. Like I mentioned in the previous post, purchasing unnecessary things for immediate satisfaction has only led me to be disappointed in myself. It's forced me to evaluate bad habits in my life and build healthy ones. Not only that but the reasons behind my bad habits. I still stand by my decision to be the strongest, healthiest version of myself this year in 2020.

Here's the importance of being healthy physically but also emotionally

There's a correlation between having hobbies and reduced cortisol levels and depression, just check out this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2863117/
I've heard about this in the past, and while it's hard to pick up a hobby when you have a general disinterest in activities, I've noticed if I force myself into it, sometimes it becomes enjoyable along the way. So that's another thing I realized about myself, hobbies are so important.


and to add to what I said earlier about working out, I find that working out in itself doesn't make your life great. Although one healthy habit can lead you to have a healthier mindset, which could lead you to have one healthy meal, or inviting friends to hangout. It's basically a domino effect, and I strongly encourage people to get active. For me it doesn't matter what I do, I just enjoy the relaxed feeling after a hard workout. But if your the type of person who needs to enjoy the activity itself to stick with it, find that activity you love and stick with it. It's an investment in yourself, and you'll never tell yourself "why did I waste my money" when you're doing something to take care of yourself.
One final thing I learned is having a strong WHY when working out. Don't make it about looking hot for a crush, fitting into that dress next week when you go out with the girls or any other reason that doesn't involve you improving for yourself.

Some good examples of strong WHY reasons could be: To be a strong example for your family and living a long and healthy life.
Although that's not to say you can't start changing your life and moving your body because you want to look good for a guy/girl, because along the way your goal could change and evolve.
For me personally, I want to live a very long and healthy life, in my life so far I've seen people passing away as early as 50, and people making it to 100. I also use food and moving my body as a medicine when I'm going through hard times mentally. I'm not perfect by any means, I'll still get that sugary filled Dunkin Donuts coffee every once in a while, but everyone has to start somewhere! I try to at the very least start my morning off having a healthy breakfast. Currently, I'm thankful I have the funds to make myself a green juice every morning. I also find it's important to surround yourself with friends with the same mindset and even following people you admire through social media with that same mindset too.

So my main point is to find ways you can strive to be happy and stay healthy. This is still an extremely hard time for everyone but if we made it this far I'm personally so proud of you. We are so resilient, and I've truly felt this while going through this time. if you can get through a frigging pandemic along with everything else going on in this world you can get through anything! 

Have a great afternoon❤

A time for stillness

Here I am again with another Covid 19 post, I am going insane.
One small tidbit about me is that I have to keep busy in order to feel sane, the busier I am the less I nitpick my own life. This virus has forced me to stop all patterns of what I was doing previously and just sit with myself, day after day.

I'm not alone in this either.

I feel like a majority of people are feeling hopeless, depressed, with emotions running high. If you live with others, you may all be driving each other crazy at this point.

Although there's weird comfort in the fact that we are all going through this together. I don't feel left out when I'm not hanging out with friends because everyone isn't hanging out. I can't look at someone's recent trip to Europe because a majority of us aren't traveling right now.
I read a post this morning about how America will gaslight us once this virus has slowed down and business returns as usual. Here's the post if anyone is interested:
https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0

I've already seen it with businesses, for example retail, starting up more sales than usual. I get so many emails about free shipping, 50% off loungewear, 20% off deal today only, etc. I think we are all seeking normalcy and if we can just buy some new clothes or get that new iPhone, it'll make us feel better for a while.

Although this isn't normal at all, and I think it's so important for me, along with society, to remember this event. I hope this does change us in a way, maybe to appreciate the smaller things in life more. To carefully pick the politicians next time, to focus on the feelings we felt during this time to help us in the future.

This time has been hard, but it's been like therapy to me. It's forced me to look inward and make changes to bad habits I've had for so long and to truly focus on what I want out of the next 5 years of my life. I'm 25 and I try to ignore the fact I'm getting older. Although I should be focusing on what could I do to improve so that I fall in love with life. That I'm so passionate about my life that I'm too busy to think about the dread of getting older, not meeting my goals, not living life the way others do. To just be happy.

I think this is a good time in a way, and although it's heartbreaking, I think it's teaching us valuable lessons that we shouldn't forget.

It's a rainy Monday for me, I've got my coffee in hand and I think it's time I finally get around to finishing my statistics homework.

Have a great day everyone

Thoughts about Covid-19

I'm currently at my boyfriend's house trekking through this virus we call Covid-19
I have not left the dining room table for 4 days straight lol
Lots of online shopping has been done, and feeling like days have been repeating.
Although going on daily walks has definitely helped.

They say things will get worse before they get better, China has started to recover but they went by very strict guidelines. You were not allowed to leave your house without a paper saying you can walk the streets.
Here we are still able to go to Dunkin Donuts drive through, go to grocery stores, post office, and other necessities. We are seeing a pattern similar to Italy if we don't make more restrictions.

Here's a chart of how things are right now and how they potentially will be in the future. It's the worse around May 22nd. It shows 3 months of social distancing compared to China's style of a lockdown and the outcomes of it.

I have a great summer job I'm looking forward to and will be moving on property, I know we will probably end up moving later on in the summer which is sad but things happen and you can't really prevent it.

Anyways, I'll see you in my next post.