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Hey guys, I've been thinking about something most of today and I just wanted to share it with you because it might be helpful in one regard or another.

I was realizing that in stressful times,

I tend to run to my worst self.

Just wonder if other people felt the same way.

I went to my worst version of myself. You know we all have

all different versions of who we are and a lot of us have worked on ourselves. I

know certainly I have. But the worst self for me is the most vulnerable self where I have self doubt wonder what I'm doing

Wonder if things will ever be the same have I done enough of this have I done enough that

It's a bad place to go. It's like going out a rabbit hole for me, okay?

And I think the reason I tend to do it is because I don't have all my usual habits around me that keep me on the straight and narrow, you know, a system, a routine, timelines, responsibilities, and those are the things that kind of keep me on my course, more so than I ever really realize until this pandemic happened.

And I also find for me this silence is deafening.

It bugs me a heck of a lot. It makes me so sad. So

sad to hear everything's so quiet and not to have the comfort of my good friends around me close physically

because I assume but I don't know it doesn't do it for me not to have them close not to

be laughing to be drinking with them eating with them even in-laws, the ones I'm not that crazy about.

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