I Just Want to Travel Again

Hello Hiveians!

I am now in the 12th day of this 30-Day Blogging Challenge that was initiated by Hive account@tegoshei. I asked her of how many joined the challenge and she said it was about 20 and only 12 are still active. Both are good numbers to start with and it's very understandable if we see fewer numbers in the coming days. I, for what its worth, have been very amazed of the outcome of this challenge even if we're still almost half way there. You might ask why?

I don't know why, but the topic for today is too close to me and yet I don't want to write about it. But since I have to continue with this or else I'll be breaking the promise I made to myself 13 days ago, I need to pursue with this no matter what. You see, I'm writing this at 10:00 PM when I should be sleeping. Before that I was watching Blacklist on Netflix. Quiet fair for a series because I was really hooked. Because of this challenge, I was forced to cut midway through the season finale of Season 4. Bummer.

Now let's get this over with because it's either I should go to bed or continue watching the series to see through the end of season finale. To tell you honestly, I'm tired. Tired of everything and I really wanted a bail out even just for a while, but I can't do that because it's not yet possible to do the very thing that made me cope up with the stress in the past.

Right now I'm like a boiling kettle without an exhaust. I'm near my limit at work because the very coping mechanism that works best for me is not yet possible because of the virus. This adds frustration in me which is stacked up with the current pressure at work. I'm tired of cleaning after people's mess. I'm tired of keeping up with their high expectations. I'm nearing my tipping point.

When I'm drained, I travel.

I tried anything I can think of to recharge, but nothing comes close as effective as traveling. I just bought a yoga mat from my friend and I haven't touched it yet. Yoga is effective as it makes me feel good after, but the effects don't last long. Watching movies, reading, or attempting to learn a new language just to break the monotonous day are good, but they last only after a few attempts.

Blogging comes the closest to travel because I am able to reminisce the travel I had done, but since I'm in this challenge, my travel series would have to be temporarily halted. I will definitely pick it up over the weekend. But the another problem arises; I only have a handful of travel posts left which is not a good thing because I don't know when this quarantine will be lifted.

There's a good news though. Tourism in various parts of the province might be opened again soon, but there's no fixed date yet. I'm apprehensive of this move because of the alarming increase of cases in the city. I'm not sure how they will pull this through, but I really need to travel soon to blow off some steam. I have been very unproductive at work lately.

Earlier this afternoon, I slept on the bus instead of writing because I was really tired even if I haven't done much the whole day. I hope this will be remedied soon because I really hate the feeling when I'm unproductive.

I'm sure we have different ways of recharging. I'm curious to know yours. Comment down below or make a post about it.

Kim Ybañez

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