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Hack Off Anxiety #2: Embrace The Mess
A fair number of articles on my blog will revolve around personal experiences, including the most recent life-changing struggle I underwent over 2023: Anxiety. My aim with this series, which has been named “Hack Off Anxiety”, is to provide an accessible, real, and personable insight into my struggles with anxiety in bits and pieces; if this series can help make even one person’s life happier, it will be fully worth it. Each article typically includes an active step that one may take in order to make things better. Keep in mind that I am not a medical professional and none of the words I say should be taken as medical advice but rather as anecdotal lessons that have helped me.
So what if you do not have the perfect to-do app, the perfect timetable, the perfect sleep schedule, or even the perfect diet. Will your life implode? Will you forever be doomed to the fires of Mt. Sorrow? What the fuck will happen, Aakash? What the fuck will happen?
Nothing, a small voice whispered inside my head. Absolutely fucking nothing.
That’s that. That’s that. Now stop panicking and live. LIVE FFS!, another voice screamed deep inside.
Welcome, dear reader, to my humble piece of hell; it’s not much but it does have a swimming pool full of doubt, a grill burning with self-indictment, and intermittent gusts of wind that…
