How I look after myself: I collapse on the pile of books, if necessary. Mostly my life is a series of habits, that I have enough discipline to follow (sleep, food, meds, physical therapy -- I am recovering from 3 major surgeries in the last 2 years) and as Epictetus wrote, I "Make the best use of what is in [my] power, and take the rest as it happens." I remind myself repeatedly, every day, that I only have to get through today.
The only times I've ever been looked after I was either too depressed to get myself dressed, or too sick/recovering from surgery to do selfcare past going to the bathroom. Despite explicit written instructions on the care I wanted post-surgery my family did not do a very good job of it; I think I'd have been better off in a rehab center.
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Date: 2015-04-09 09:01 pm (UTC)How I look after myself: I collapse on the pile of books, if necessary. Mostly my life is a series of habits, that I have enough discipline to follow (sleep, food, meds, physical therapy -- I am recovering from 3 major surgeries in the last 2 years) and as Epictetus wrote, I "Make the best use of what is in [my] power, and take the rest as it happens." I remind myself repeatedly, every day, that I only have to get through today.
The only times I've ever been looked after I was either too depressed to get myself dressed, or too sick/recovering from surgery to do selfcare past going to the bathroom. Despite explicit written instructions on the care I wanted post-surgery my family did not do a very good job of it; I think I'd have been better off in a rehab center.