Weronika Stróżyk

I’m not really a morning person and I hate getting out of bed early. Everyday when I wake up, I tell myself that I just have to make it through this week and then I will be able to enjoy my weekend. Today, that thought made me realise two things. Firstly, whenever we have to do something we really don’t want to do, we tend to set ourselves little goals that we can reach. Having something to look forward to helps us go through with what we have to do, even if it is something we really don’t enjoy. Secondly, I realised how repeating that is. When we wake up on Monday morning, we tell ourselves that we have to get through the week and then we’ll be able to enjoy our weekend. However, the weekend passes too quickly for our liking and we have to get through the weekdays again, which makes us stuck in some kind of never-ending loop of looking forward to things only for them to pass too quickly.

Recently, I was in a kind of bad mood and I was talking with my best friend, telling her about my problems. She listened to me while I let it all out but didn’t really say much. When I stopped talking, she told me she doesn’t really know what to say because she wants to make me feel better but she doesn’t know how to do it. At that moment, I realised that sometimes, it’s not people’s actions and words that matter, but their intentions. My friend didn’t tell me that it’ll get better, she didn’t hug me, she didn’t really act in any way that showed me she wanted to make me feel better because she didn’t really know how to do that. Yet hearing her say that she wanted to do so, that she cared about me and my happiness even though she didn’t know how to act on it helped me a lot more than all of the other things would.