Learn To Love Life

August 21, 2025

Day 2 out of 90. Today was great. There wasn’t a single habit that I didn’t check off today. I went to the gym this morning for about 20 minutes. It was much easier to get my water intake in when I was starting the morning early and drinking water early. I’ll think about adding something like drink water right out of bed into my routine. I have to be entirely honest and say that it felt so good to check everything off my list. I feel very accomplished.

While I do want to feel accomplished when I am able to check everything off, I want to contain the feeling somewhat so that I don’t feel like a failure when I’m not able to do so. It’s so hard to find a happy medium with that. How do I celebrate the wins, but not let the not wins feel like losses? I think that’s something that we all struggle with. But the important part is progress. And progress isn’t linear. There is so much more to it than just going up.

Tomorrow is Friday, meaning that I will have gotten through a week of the semester already. I already know that I have some plans for Saturday. I’m really excited for them, so I’m just hoping that tomorrow runs smoothly. Some days are the days that you just have to get through. And that’s okay. Tomorrow is one of those days unfortunately.

But once I get through tomorrow, it’s the weekend! Over the summer, I worked a job with non traditional hours and days. I still worked full time weeks, but my days off were spread randomly through the week. Some weeks I had a Monday and Tuesday off. Other weeks a Monday and Thursday. Pretty much every combination. It was rare, however, that I got weekends off. So, it being the weekend didn’t mean much to me. The weekends I did get off, I went on vacation. That means that this weekend is the first real weekend I’ve had in a long time. Since back in May.

I worked for a few hours this morning. It’s an on campus job and I’m able to do homework for most of the time, unless I get a call. So, I took tonight off of homework. Sometimes you need to know when to take the break. I got everything done for tonight and tomorrow. The next homework that I have due is Monday. I will try to work over the weekend, though. Because like I said before, I would rather be ahead than just trying to keep up.

I owe myself a self care night. Tonight is for resting, but maybe one of the nights this weekend I will do some self care. I like to do a face mask, take an everything shower, do my nails, etc. One of the most important parts of having a routine is making sure there is time to care for myself put into the schedule. I’m learning to love my life again. I won’t be able to do that if I’m not loving myself first.