Battery Charger

Lately, I have found myself carrying around my phone charger wherever I go. My phone seems to be eating up all of it's battery power incredibly quickly now, and instead of charging it every two days, it has been needing to be charged every 1.25 or less days. The simple act of this has been a bit of an annoyance for me, especially when I pull out my charger and I am only able to charge my phone until it is at 35.5%. I know this isn't very healthy for the battery, as I have been told that when charging something, you should keep said device charging until it is at 100%.

So while my phone rests on a constant 23% while I carry it around, I sometimes give it a break for five or so minutes to charge up to a whopping 29%.

This has gotten me thinking, what about us?? How often do we take time to re-charge ourselves??

Are you walking around ready to be re-charged, and just waiting for a few brief seconds to re-collect yourself?

As I have been learning in my sociology class, we humans, are social beings. It is in the nature of our society to be social. We have a tendency to book our schedules full, leaving little time for ourselves.
Yes, there are so many benefits of being social, and that deservedly requires another blog post, but what I'm really trying to get at is...how are you taking care of yourself??

We seem to worry so much about our electronic devices and taking care of them. I have noticed that I get a little uptight when I am not able to fully charge my phone to 100%, and I fret about when I can take the time to charge it again, and quickly.

But I rarely take the time to re-charge myself.

Since it is the beginning of April, the busyness of the year is starting to reach its climax, and in all reality, it won't begin its downward spiral until close to graduation. So, really, there are about five or six things that I could be doing instead of writing this blog post right now. But in all reality, I love to write. I love the flow of words on paper. Writing is something that I can express myself in and something that helps to re-charge me.

In a recent conversation with a friend, she gave me some insight and pointed out how important it is to take time for yourself. Otherwise burn-out is an inevitable end.

Just like it's almost pointless to charge your phone for five minutes, why should you keep working until you run yourself dry?

Although we may be social, sometimes it is a-okay to seek out times of silence and solitude to re-charge yourself. In the end, you have this one and only precious life, and it's pretty important to make sure that you keep running.

So let the phone charge, but while it's charging, take time for yourself. Read a book (an actual book), write a blog-post, or sit outside.

You have but this one and precious life, why wouldn't you take time to enjoy a little bit of solitude and appreciate times of independence?

So here is my suggestion. Take a ten minute break and listen to this calming music, that is also rather re-energizing. It's from one of my favorite soundtracks. Read a book or journal, or pray. Just a little act you'll be thanking yourself later on for. :-)