17 July 2025

I had a pretty intensive unit last week and I've felt very exhausted. It also threw all of my habits way out of whack and I've had trouble getting it back in order. I reached out for support and a big strategy discussed was ensuring that I wake up at a consistent time, even if I stay up late. That way, I might be tired the next day, but my schedule will remain intact.

Perhaps you'd have realised that sooner if you'd been more consistently journaling, Sashna.

There's no point bashing me over the past, Darth, but I take your point. I think that reflecting does help me. I sometimes wonder if it would be better to reflect on my past day, as I usually do, or my present feelings.

How will you learn if you don't realise you are mistaken? Focusing just on the present may make you feel better in the moment. But you ignore the past and future at your peril, Dark One.

Ah yes. But the purpose of that is to help me plan my actions in the present.

And future.

You don't relent easily, Darth. You clearly don't want me being one with the present. I think that that comforts me. Present-mindedness is so constantly spruiked. But it makes no sense.