Thursday, 29 May 2025

Crisis of confidence?

I am feeling, I must be honest, a little lacking in belief in my own abilities. It has been a difficult few days at work and I have made a couple of silly little mistakes, and they seem to have made my feelings of self-admiration evaporate. I am questioning my own decisions, second-guessing my certainties and feeling as if I need to check everything I do with someone else, as if I need validation from a superior before I am sure I've got something right.
Hopefully it's just one of those things, but it's not something I'm used to in the workplace, and unfortunately my 'negative projection' head has starting to make me anxious about the fact that it's only May 29th, and we have months of hard work ahead, and an incredibly busy Summer Holidays to come that will make this half-term feel like a gentle inconvenience. It all feels 'a little too much' and I'm not looking forward to the drive in every morning, which again, is not a situation I am used to. I may have my off days, but I'm always quite enthusiastic and never find myself dreading the trek to the office. Until this week...
I mean, let's be honest, I'm no stranger to spells of the occasional depression, and the skies this week have been that type of grey that seems to soak into my soul and quash all my optimism, and it's never a good thing when we're having rain showers that remind me of Winter. So maybe it's all just that - the lingering elements of SAD being rekindled by the damp air. (Actually I think 'rekindled' hints at something bursting into flames, which of cause can't happen in damp air... But anyway...)
So I shall carry on regardless and see what the morrow brings.

RC 29-5-25


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