Life's tough, you know? It's all go go go, push push push. And sometimes when you push something too hard, it has a tendency to break down. In my lecture today, we talked about John Stuart Mill (great legal philosopher and political scientist) whose father, James Mill, pushed him to his utmost limits from a very young age, teaching him Latin, Greek, economics, etc. At the tender age of 20, John Stuart Mill broke down and recovered by reading poetry (in particular, the poetry of William Wordsworth). I love that poetry has the capacity to resuscitate a life!
Now that uni is back and the stress that hits mid-semester once assessments are all due is imminent, it's important to take some 'mental health' days. These are days when you lie in bed all day wearing pretty pink pyjamas, watching Grey's Anatomy re-runs, drinking lots of green tea and eating toblerone. Which is what I've been doing today in an effort to get over this persistent flu that has been dragging down my energy levels for a whole two weeks. Otherwise, you hit burn-out city, which is a student's worst nightmare.
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