Venting Frustrations

[tcepsa]

I'm having an edgy day--the program that I'm working on is giving me more trouble than usual (in ways that are counterintuitive to me) but since yelling at it doesn't help, I'm going to rant about something that a different supervisor just said. I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something along the lines of,

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[sucsays]

You will be surprised how much effort and courage it can take to internalize and act upon the notion that you deserve to have fun. Especially if you've hit a couple of rough, un-fun patches. Sometimes it's easier to rationalize your misery by telling yourself that life/work or certain aspects of life/work are not meant to be fun. Then you don't have to blame yourself for not trying hard enough to find fun if you aren't having any.