Reflection time. I’m currently on the trip, and today marks the day of arrival. I enjoyed the way we traveled to get here and the food. However, after dessert, we walked through an active part of the city where there appeared to be bustling nightlife. With all the people in the area around me, I got pretty self-conciscous. More than I’d like to. Now, I do know that in the past when going out in public and whatnot I got somewhat self-conscious. But this being the first in a while, I particularly felt it this time. What happened? Did I regress? Perhaps I just need to get back into the momentum and habit of things?
I find it unfortunate that that happened. It just goes to show how I have seem to exhibit this particular quality of “hard to switch from work to social mode.” I noticed it to an extent in the last few months, but why right now? I’m on vacation, come on! To be fair, I am out and about in a new city with an unfamiliar environment, and I don’t think I’ve quite agreed to myself yet that we’re exiting the pandemic. That agreement is significant, for the pandemic was the reason I had focused on certain parts of self-development (this was even reflected in subs, including the ones I ran through most of this year). But on the other hand I have already made the determination to soon get back up to speed.
Tomorrow’s run is ME + Chosen From Within. I’m very curious as to how the latter sub affects me now. I’m on vacation, so affecting productivity is not an issue. But can it help me build a strong internal frame? Will I receive the results quickly? We shall see.
I think it may be interesting to journal during the trip downtimes. After the trip is done I would like to return to daily journaling (among other habits) as it is so useful and a fellow traveler told me about how it was useful for him.