De-stressing with Bente (#10)

Learning to relax again: how do you manage to do that? Bente (23) is a freelance journalist and works as an online editor at Flow. Having experienced a near-burn-out, she’s finding her way to a life with less stress. And every Friday, she takes us with her on her journey to get there.

Sometimes you wake up and you think to yourself: ‘Today is not gonna be my day’. Then you’re proved right: you drop your cup of tea all over your breakfast, you scream in frustration because you can’t find any clean socks, and it starts to rain the minute you step outside your front door. I had one of these days this week. Everything annoyed me, and I felt rotten without any apparent reason.

Most people decide to accept their fate on such an unpleasant day and make the best of it. Not me. I prefer to don a suit of armor and go into battle with the bad day. Because it doesn’t feel right, and I want to get rid of that feeling as fast as possible.

So, on the morning of my bad day, I did all the things that normally make me happy. I read a few pages of my book, watched my favorite series, crocheted a bit, and made a huge lunch. But nothing helped. I still felt the same at one o’clock in the afternoon.