It’s Okay To Be Anxious About The New Year. It’s Okay.

It’s okay to be anxious. It’s okay that the ringing in your head is the only thing you can hear. It’s okay to already be tired so early in the year. It’s okay to need a couple moments to catch your breath even though you haven’t been running but your heart is racing. It’s okay to be afraid.

And whoever says it isn’t is a liar. The pressure to start the year a certain way is high. You’re supposed to have goals. To be excited for the new year and all that (which is okay). But all you feel is overwhelmed because you are still carrying all the burdens of the previous year with you and nothing might actually change.

The beautiful thing about change is that you might not see the exact moment when it happens. You just have to keep moving. In spite of the heaviness, weariness and anxiety, you have to keep moving.

It is probably the hardest thing to do. To pick yourself up and do what you have to do when all you want to do is curl up and give in to your fears. It’s the small things you do that amount to the change you’re looking for. It’s the little effort you put that determine your improvements.

The easiest thing to do is be stuck. To be motionless, like a deer caught in the headlights, it’s the decision made in that split second whether to run for dear life or be too afraid to move that determines whether that deer has a chance of survival.

So whatever small move you have to make, replying a mail, picking up a book to read, booting up your laptop to get some work done, whatever small movement you have to make, make it. Trust me, it adds up. And one day you wake up, and you see that you survived that dark moment. You made it. You’re alive. And you’ve made some progress. That’s all that matters.