Day 8 of 365- A very stressful weekend

8th of January 2022

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Today is meant to be laundry day, I got a lot of clothes which require sanitizing but a body at rest wants to remain at rest. I slept late last night, no that came out wrong, I didn’t sleep yesterday until the early hours of today- about 1 or 2 am. I was doing my usual busy-ness thing which requires no explanation, at some point I had to watch Tik-Tok videos as a means of clearing my head and relieving myself of the hall of stress I’ve been through, after which I landed on bed and drifted off into dreamland. Getting out of bed this morning was a real struggle, coincidentally, girlfriend’s call came in (I need not explain the complication this time or my head will be cut off by unknown forces), but I had to slide the red button upwards since my body needed more sleep. Her call came in about three more times which I declined in each case but couldn’t go back to sleep afterwards. I looked at my smartphone and realised it was already a few minutes past 8 am. I jumped out of bed with all the energy accumulated from dreamland and kaboomed to the laundry- those clothes needed my attention badly, it’s now or never as I’m always busy during the week and wouldn’t be free until late night. In fact, today is also gonna be a busy day, I gotta travel a far distance by 2pm, I need to make enquiries regarding the price of some building materials as I need to do some renovations on the apartment where I’ve got tenants. The drainage system needs to be worked on hence I need to get a quotation on the quantity of blocks and cements needed, while also considering the workmanship. In addition, the gate needs to be repainted as it is beginning to deteriorate, ignoring this will result in more damage and the gate will need to be replaced if immediate action isn’t taken. All these is gonna require a lot of stress and money but it’s a necessary sacrifice that needs to be made. In fact, I got angry at some point because I went to the apartment and realised they haven’t been taking proper care of the environment- coincidentally none of the tenants were around at the time of my visit- this was their saving grace as I would have leashed on them in ways they weren’t expecting. I was really displeased that I had to contact my elder sister via video call so she could also see how badly the environment was being managed. I had to contact the tenants via phone and expressed my displeasure with firmness, after which they apologised and promised to adjust- they had better adjust or I’d use other means to deal with them (I’d rather not mention). Truth is; I’m the nicest person you’d ever come across but I can be very strict regarding certain things hence I enjoy setting examples where necessary regardless of the cost- it’s all about passing a message which is; “don’t mess with kristoffer”.

Back to track, I forced myself out of bed few minutes past 8 am, had to do the laundry at faster than light speed while simultaneously making some necessary calls my placing my phone loudspeaker for convenience. I did the laundry as fast as I could after which I had to settle down to write this article while also thinking of what to have for breakfast- I guess breakfast will have to wait until later since I gotta move really fast so I could meet up with the 2 pm timeframe which is meant for the “going here and there” thing and making necessary enquiries as already mentioned above. Today is gonna be super stressful and getting home late night is inevitable. I sincerely hope I’d be able to wake early tomorrow morning so I wouldn’t get to church late or perhaps skip church altogether.

Closing thoughts

The past few days has been extremely stressful, I haven’t got any choice but to simply flow with it since I can’t run away from my responsibilities. We’ve all got responsibilities which we need to attend to, these responsibilities cannot be avoided regardless of how stressful and draining they may be. No one will do it for you if you don’t, procrastination will only make things worse, and you’d still have to do it anyway but this time it will be much more stressful than if you had done it at the right time. Responsibilities are inevitable as long as we’re alive, all we need do is face is head on as soon as it arises, and we’d be glad we did. Procrastination isn’t an option- do it while you can, make hay while the sun shines!