Nov 1, 2011: Bohemian Like You

     Today I took a mental health day, which consisted of me sleeping till about three pm and then getting up and eating. I could say it was a pretty good day, it was easy and nothing much happened. Except if I said that I would be lying. Let me tell you somethings about taking a mental health day:

• You have taken this day to completely relax. By doing so, you should probably stay in and watch British TV while drinking chai, sleeping, or writing a blog post. When I say it 's a day to completely relax I mean it! Don't get up and shower (unless you really have to), don't socialize with friends, don't go on facebook and chat (stalking people is okay but don't update status' and sh*t), don't do anything that would make you stress or regret getting out of bed.
• When relaxing for yourself, you have so much free time (another reason why you took the day off) to think! DO IT! Don't be afraid to just take the day to think about current situations in your life that need to reevaluated. I can assure you, after you rethink about a problem or area of stress in your life and you go out the next day, you will be feeling better about the situation. Plus you'll have a fresh feeling of life.
• Try to take a bath. The brilliant minded poet, Sylvia Plath once said, “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.” Do it! (And I will be jealous since I can't here in the dorms :[)
• Eat whatever the f*ck you want! Like honestly, it's your one day to not give a single f*ck from the world. So feel free to eat that candy you just collected this Monday from Halloween, or eat the remaining pieces of chocolate that you didn't hand out on Monday.

      So there are a few tips that I think are very, very helpful when you just need to take a mental health day and get away from everything. I, of course (tried) to do all of those, and I found myself sleeping most of it, which isn't bad because I really needed to catch up on sleep from the weekend. I did also notice when I was sleeping that my dreams some how were figuring things out for me. It was like I was watching some weird abstract movie of the current situations I was in and they solved themselves out. Or they gave me ideas of how to solve what needed to be solved.
      I woke up with this amazing feeling of feeling refreshed and new (but also terribly groggy), and I knew what I had to do with certain things in my life. It was as if something knew today was the day that things were to be figured out. Which brought me back to a night out by the river with friends. I sat out by the river, away from everyone, the smell of alcohol and cigarettes lingered with the wind and I looked up to the stars. I caught myself doing something I rarely ever do.

      I prayed.

      I prayed that someone or something just give me a sign of what to do. What was I going to do with all of this that had just been kind of dumped on me? I knew I wasn't going to ever get a sign back, since I rarely caught on to any of them before. Yet, today I woke up and I knew that my life was finally giving me signs that I could see. Someone or something answered me and they guided me to where my answers lie.
      That was when I sat myself down and reevaluated all these situations and I knew what I had to do.
      It's a funny thing, how one moment you are praying to the stars, your life feeling like sh*t, and not knowing if you could ever feel happy again. Then the next thing you know you feel like you have all of the answers.
      So the next time your weekend was too crazy, or you had a day/week from hell and you need to get away, don't feel bad for calling in sick or sleeping through your classes. Take sometime for you, because things will soon look up.