People Who Get It

MENTAL HEALTH IS HARD

I've explained this a lot to day and I don't want to explain it again haha. But essentially, I had a hard day today to the point of being VERY CLOSE to a mental breakdown. I mean it happens. Mental health and stress and being overworked is just a lot. So I got to a point where I said "when I get home, I need to stay home. I need to rest and regain balance". Not like some eternal metaphysical balance but like, for the time being, I need to calm my literal heart rate so I don't go into some sort of shock. Problem was I have rehearsal on Mondays. I called Jaroll, a great friend who happens to be in charge of rehearsal. I asked if I could skip today, not even really explaining why. And he allowed me to stay home, saying I deserved a break. And when I explained what happened, all he did was tell me he hopes I feel better. How good it is to have someone who understands how important it is. Like wow, it's an inconvenience to him to have people missing, but he still gave me this day. It means more than I can express

A lot changes in a year. Here's to not being where we were.