Random thoughts
I've talked on here before about my concussions last year, but I think I've rather underplayed their effects on me. Perhaps I didn't want to seem like I was overreacting, didn't want to blow it out of proportion. But here's what I've been learning. Sometimes things outside of your control impact you and continue to impact you for months or even years afterward. But this isn't always a bad thing. In some ways, my head trauma(s) have stolen a lot from me. Reading comprehension, memory, for a while, my ability to comprehend anything. In return, they gave me a lot of things I didn't ask for at the time. Nausea. Depression. Migraines. A general feeling of being lost. A feeling that the world was moving on while I was standing still, moving backwards even, falling further and further behind in my academic career while others surged on ahead. Feeling that I wasn't working hard enough to beat this. Feeling that if someone else I knew had a much worse