Yesterday is gone

And you’ll be okay🫶

It’s a Wednesday afternoon, I’m supposed to be in class but I decided to stab😑. I’m bored and tired of playing candy crush so I said, let me go through my gallery. I’m really good at keeping old pictures so it’s a fun activity for me to relive past memories.

However, I stumbled on one particular picture and went down a rabbit hole of exploring what happened during the period when I took the picture. Initially, I could not figure out what was going on (because this was in 2021) but I knew it was not a pleasant experience because I was sad and worried. I saw different memes and quotes which showed that something terrible was going on. Drove me crazy because if this situation was a bad one to the extent that I took a sad picture, why did I forget about it?

I was so pissed and I just left it alone (or so I thought). I tried to get my mind off it but it was not working. So I went through my notes from that year, nothing. Decided to go through my mails and there it was, the reason I felt so bad that time. Now, the reason made absolutely no sense to me😂 and I wondered why it had so much impact on my mental health back then.

Then I realized, 70% of things I was worried about 3 years ago no longer mattered to me. I have new things to worry about now and they’ll most likely not matter much in the future.

Sometimes when stuffs happens to us, we worry so much and we might even lose our minds about them but in a year, these stuffs would probably have resolved themselves one way or the other and there will be new things to worry about.

Now all I do is give a time frame for my problems. When something comes up, I set up a timer for it and think ‘ in a week, I should have found a way around this thing’. It does not work all the time but it helps because even if I don’t find a solution to it in a week, I simply set another timer and just let go of it.

It’s okay to cut yourself some slacks, problems no dey finish🫶.

Love,

Adesewa❤️