I’ve been feeling pretty rough this weekend, and this past week has been pretty hard too. As always there are ups and downs but I feel like I am wearing myself thin. I really only get one a day a week to myself and it’s not really guaranteed. I’m not a very social person, even though I can come off as being one. I’m one of those people that will talk a lot and try to be more outgoing around people. With my friends though, I enjoy hours of silence in their company. With going to college, a lot has changed. I used to have plenty of time to myself to recharge my social battery and be more prepared to deal with people. Now I spend most days on campus. Given, I commute, so I have to add drive time to long days. I have a club that I’ve joined to try and learn some self defense, as well as started working out because I want to look better, and hosting a study group and going to supplementary instructions. On top of it all, I’m still working, which happens on days I don’t have club. It’s been stressful. I went from not needing to be around people very often, to having to be around them everyday because there’s almost no place I can go on campus to be alone. Here, community is a big deal. But what if being apart of that community is incredibly draining? It’s so hard to find balance