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Someone needed her kindness, entreated for it. The need to be needed, to be necessary; a gift.

Tanith Lee, from Night’s Master

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feeling useful : cleaning the floor

#chores #cleaning #clean #productivity #feeling useful #housework #maintenance

To Be Useful, pt. 1

I sometimes feel like I am not a good, functional part of my own life.

This feeling can be attributed to 1. my life-long, close relationship with anxiety and 2. my innate, mortal fear of embarrassing myself or doing things wrong and then being embarrassed about it because of who I am as a person.

When I am struggling more with anxiety, this comes into play even at my work in the writing center, a place where I usually feel that I can handle the challenge. It makes me more self-contained, and less likely to ask for help from others in any situation, whether it be a question during a session or just help writing a post for our Facebook page. I know it’s okay to reach out, and that I am really encouraged to do so, but every once in a while when I’m really stressed, I find myself reverting back to a small, ghost version of myself.

I’m definitely better about it than I used to be.

Time, growing up, and really good support have helped me realize that, even in my darker days, I am useful.

I can be functional, even if I am still, and always, learning how to live with this and other mental illnesses.

I can do things, and even if they are very small they will be done and done by me. Small accomplishments grow our perception of our own abilities.

I’m gonna do a part two of this, where I talk about depression and how that’s a whole other cat in regards to the idea of feeling useful. Stay tuned.

#on writing #writing center #mental illness #feeling useful #work stuff

#things i miss from my summer job:#working with other people and talking with them #feeling useful #:/#feeling like i can do something right #it was pretty ''easy'' stuff where you dont need pretty much any training just hands that work #now back in college :(#met a girl from the same program today and she had done a couple of days of simple work too but it had felt boring to her #simple is a simplified term here bc i dont know how to explain it better #human machine type of thing #mine wasnt part of a #production line like that though so less stressful at least #might not be as nice if i would have continued #three months is not that much

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Assembling a desk with dad.

#page 133 of 366 #new page #assembling a desk with dad #feeling useful #story of my year #2016 #366 days #daily quote

Donated blood.

#feeling useful

Making dinner for the family tonight

orange braised beef shanks (except i had to use bone marrows, and beef chuck. The butcher at the grocery store says no one buys beef shanks anymore so you have to special order them. WTF!)

-in the new fancy crockpot.

baked potatoes

and broccoli (white people sides)

I'm enjoying cooking, using spices, new cooking utensils and all that jazz. I feel homely and like I'm taking care of the ones I love. And like a scientist. Cos chemistry is crazy relevant in cooking.

#feeling useful