Starting off the new year sick!
It's been awhile since I've last posted a Bear blog, once I wrapped up my little 75 Day Creativity Challenge, I took a long break from writing blogs over the last 3-ish months. I've found myself gravitating more back to physical journaling and writing on pen and paper but I do occasionally want to come back to my Bear Blog with some insights.
I really do enjoy the last couple days of the year, once Christmas is over, my birthday is followed up 4 days later on the 29th which basically feels like a second Christmas. I also turned 30 this year! This felt like a significant milestone and turning over into a new decade, plus 2023 was a really good year for me in terms of accomplishments and just things that happened. Right after the big Christmas holiday, my partner ended up getting sick and eventually gave me his sickness and luckily enough, I didn't start feeling sick until the day of my birthday!
This actually happened before in 2019, we both were so sick during that last week of the year and it's just a special kind of annoyance being sick during your birthday AND on new years eve/day. This also felt especially frustrating entering a new decade that I'm genuinely excited about but kept hearing from people and society that it only goes down from here! Not to mention it's also the turn of a new year and I've already taken time off from the gym and was excited to get back into that routine but being sick has drained a ton of energy and my body just needs more rest.
Since the start of COVID back in 2020, I actually haven't gotten sick that much except for getting COVID once in 2022 and any after effects of getting my flu and COVID vaccines. Now, I haven't tested yet so I'm not sure if I have some COVID variant but my symptoms don't feel as nearly bad as I did when I actually got COVID but just in general, still feeling icky and unable to properly sleep for the past couple of days.
While starting off the new decade and the new year sick has put a huge damper on things, I'm trying to force myself to take easy and try to get some rest. My lizard brain does fear staying away from the gym too long will rest in me just giving up but I've been consistently working out for the past 1.5 years and I feel like my best self and more like my self when doing that consistently. So I truly couldn't imagine not returning to those habits and feeling happy.
Thanks for listening to my little pity party about being angry at being sick during my birthday and during the new year. I hope everyone had a better turn of the year and is in good health and if you're not, just remember to take it easy and allow yourself to rest without feeling guilty or worried about starting off track!