chapter 3
COPING WITH FAILURE
One night, I got out of the shower and just lay on the floor near my bed with my eyes fixated on different parts of my popcorn ceiling. I just lay there. I couldn’t move.
Have you ever been there? So stuck in your own shit that you don’t have the energy to get off the floor? I have, and it sucks. And usually it’s one stupid thing that happened or was said and you just cannot let it go. Questions flood your mind. Why didn’t I do the damn laundry? Why couldn’t I have just finished my project? Why do I hate everyone at this moment? Why did I get rice in my poke bowl? Why is the scale higher than it should be? Why didn’t I do what I said I was going to do?
That day, I stayed on the floor for about 30 minutes frozen ...
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