Reformation Dress // Rebecca Minkoff Heels
Happy happy Wednesday, friends! We’ve made it halfway through the week – and this week has been a real doozie. You know those weeks where nothing seems to go quite as planned? That’s definitely my week in a nutshell, but at least we’re slowly (but surely!) making it through!
Earlier this week, I talked about my newfound optimism after feeling like the world is finally starting to get back to normal…ish. And while I’m definitely optimistic, getting back into a world where social events are happening constantly is a little exhausting. I feel like we’ve all existed in a bit of a socially distant cocoon, and now we’re slowly reemerging again – but with lots of dates, and events, and social engagements on the books – more than what we probably used to be able to manage in a pre-Pandemic world. And while it’s definitely exciting to catch up with friends, it’s also been a little exhausting feeling like we need to make up for lost time, and maximize as much time together as humanly possible. Don’t get me wrong, I love every second of it – it’s just that I can feel the fatigue coming on more than I maybe originally thought after all those brutal months stuck at home.
Now that most of us are fully vaccinated, it feels harder to come up with an excuse to stay home (and I usually REALLY love excuses to stay home!), so being an introvert coming out of quarantine is a little more trying than I thought it was going to be. While I love hanging with friends and family, I feel more rejuvenated when I have time alone to fully unwind (because I will be the first to admit that I’m wound rather tightly ;)), collect my thoughts and feel like I’m getting my life together slowly but surely. So gearing up for a big summer of social events and activities sounds both super fun, but also pretty exhausting.
And I know I’m not the only one – the post vaccination exhaustion has come up with friends and co-workers fairly often over the past few weeks. When I ask people what they’re doing over the weekend, there’s usually a long list of social events, and then a comment about how they’re “tired already”, or “they’ll have the next week to relax” – so I know I’m definitely not the only one feeling this way. It’s odd because of course we feel so grateful to be (seemingly) on the other side of this, at least here in the US, but at the same time there’s this underlying fatigue that’s lingering from the stress of the past year, but also the newfound freedom to attempt to go back to normal life. It’s a weird new world that everyone’s facing – that I for one didn’t expect.
So I’m trying to take it a little easy on myself, and maybe ease on into the social engagements a bit. While I’m always happy to hang, I’m trying to find a better balance of spending my free time with friends (and hosting on my new patio!), while also allowing myself to say “no” to plans more – and enjoying some much needed time alone, especially after crazy weeks like this one. And while you may not be feeling exactly the same, I hope you do find some much needed balance as we go through more of these unanticipated transitions to find better balance, whatever that means for you. We’re all kinda winging this whole life thing anyways, so I guess we’ll all figure it out together.
How are you hanging in there with post-Vaccine life and social events? Are you feeling as fatigued as me, or are you stacking as many social events as possible these days? And best of all, if you’ve figured out some sort of miraculous way to balance it all, I’d love to hear about that too. Currently on the struggle bus, but working to get better 🙂 <3
