In the past year, I have become an avid health freak. Mainly due to the fact that when I came to college as a freshman, I spent a year not taking care of my self and my health at all, and I suffered the consequences. I realized a year ago that I was in college now and it was my responsibility to ensure my good health. I now have a strict 8-hour sleep schedule, I eat ridiculously healthy and exercise daily, and I try to set aside time for relaxation, reading, recuperating, and all that good mental health stuff too. This is particularly important to me this summer, as I don’t have the difficulties of school to get in the way.
I find that when I stay out with friends all night like I did twice this weekend, which often consists of eating greasy food at 3 am and certainly destroying that strict sleep schedule, I feel horribly guilty. This was something I never experienced in high school, mainly because it rarely happened, and I wasn’t too concerned with my health back then.
Now, although social health is important as well, it is sometimes difficult for me to relax in a social situation where I am destroying all my hard work of living healthy. Healthy living isn’t exactly #1 on every college student’s list of priorities, so it’s a hard thing to compromise. I need to work on balancing my crazy healthy lifestyle and my growing social life, and I need to work on not worrying about it when that balance isn’t perfect! Just more to add to the list of things to balance in life…