Alyssa Musso
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A scientist by trade, but a creative at heart. One novel in progress with too many other ideas taking up space in my head. Some of those ideas end up here.
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Life is for Living
I stand in front of my pantry, staring at all of the non-perishable food items my boyfriend and I had stockpiled at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone remembers the uncertainty and the rising panic as the virus quickly became an emerging threat. I remember making late night trips to the grocery store, grabbing whatever I could. I remember driving past overcrowded parking lots, my anxiety spiking just thinking about how many people filled the aisles as necessities disappeared from the shelves. I remember ordering boxes and boxes of food from Amazon to avoid those crowded stores.
By Alyssa Musso4 years ago in Humans
Disentangling
My grandfather used to have a saying, “Always take care of yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.” I heard him say it many times throughout my adolescence, years before I understood the true meaning of self-care. Almost ten years after my grandfather’s death, I am only now realizing the wisdom of his statement. No one ever really teaches us about self-care when we are children or adolescents. We grow up watching our parents and guardians, how they sacrifice so much to take care of us. It seems like they were always so unselfish and never had any time for themselves because they were too busy and too focused on loving us. I looked up to my mother and my grandmother and how they provided for our family, how they took care of everything and everyone before themselves. I aspired to be so caring and unselfish. But is being unselfish really that admirable? I’m not so sure anymore. For me, living unselfishly has led to a lonely and unhappy life, the complete opposite of what I had expected. I am so focused on taking care of others that I have forgotten to take care of the most important person: myself. Over the past year, a variety of things have opened my eyes and have made me realize that I have abandoned myself. I have sacrificed my own independence and self-care, at home and at work. I’ve been living a life according to the expectations of others at the expense of my own happiness. This is the year where I start to take it all back: self-care, independence, and sleep.
By Alyssa Musso4 years ago in Confessions
