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We did four laps around the lake and it was just so peaceful and calming walking in the morning like early is such like a different vibe and it's so peaceful. And then we went to go get breakfast at a cute little cafe and it was just so nice. Like I appreciate beautiful mornings like that so much. And honestly, I've been in like a rut lately. Like when I got back from my vacation, like I know explain this in my last vlog. But honestly, like when you're in a rut, it takes time to get out of it. It's not just like one day you're going to do a bunch of shit and then you're going to be out of the rut, like it doesn't really work like that. You kind of have to keep working towards it and it's not only like my cat passing last week, but it's just like after my vacation, I feel like I was just like on such a high. I had so much dopamine and then coming back home, like after my cat passed, it just like was really hard to get over that plus the fact that like I was back home so like everything was felt different. And I don't really know why, but I guess like it's just like the wave of life and it's normal for your life to be up and down. And this week I'm really working towards getting out of this slump, trying to do like get back into my routine and do the things that make me happy and grounded and like get back into it to make myself feel better. And I'm not like fully there yet, but I'm definitely getting back and I'm definitely feeling like a lot happier now and a lot better. But I just want you to know that like if you're feeling like you're in a rut right now or feeling down or whatever, just know that you will eventually get out of it and it's really important to feel those emotions and it will eventually get better like I promise. And just make sure to be surrounding yourself with things that you love doing and just like nourishing yourself like you got to water yourself. And I was watching the net video yesterday and it like really really spoke to me. She was basically talking about like how in the society we're built like machines and if we are not working and when we're taking time off we always like our head is always like thinking about what can make me a better worker, what can make me more money and you're not truly just like living the way that you're here to live and the way that human beings are supposed to live. Because like we're so wrapped up in society and for the most part like our jobs are the most important thing in our life and it's the most important parts. It's true like one of the first questions when you meet somebody you're going to ask them like what's your career? Like that's one of the like that's literally like what takes up our time. That's what we work towards. And she was also saying like when we take vacations we take vacations like not just to be a human being and to live our life but we take vacations ultimately to like help us rest and then to come back as a better worker. Like everything is revolved around work no matter what you do, no matter what field that you're in. And it's just like so important to try to separate yourself from your job and think about what you really want for you in your life. Not career-wise, not financially, just like solely based on you place yourself outside of society and just try to think about like what do you want with your life that that doesn't have to do with your career? Because ultimately like we're married to what we do. We need to make money and it's just like that's how our society works and that's how it runs. She was also saying how like we're not going to make a change unless we all realize that and know that we like hold the power within ourselves. We're on like a floating planet in the middle of the universe and I always think about that and it's like we're so wrapped up in the society of ours and our jobs and that's basically like our main focus and what takes up 90% of our lives I would say because even when you're not working you're thinking about your work and even like me being doing a very creative job it's like even when I had like last week off I'm so like programmed to feel guilty that I'm not like working in terms of like I'm my brain is always on thinking of content thinking of ways to make money thinking about what videos I should make and all that kind of stuff and even though like this is truly my passion and that's also a reason why I'm constantly thinking about it it's nice to have like a guilty free break from thinking of any of that at all I'm always thinking in the moment like oh I need to capture this content and I need to think of more content ideas and blah blah blah but it's like it's not healthy to always have your brain on and even if you work like a different job like an office job or whatever you do for your work you could probably relate in the sense that like even when you have your days off and designated time off you're kind of still always thinking about it whether you're dreading to go back to work or whether you're just thinking about new things that you can do within your job or how to exceed better in your job and so I'm going to be trying to work on that moving forward it's just kind of like separating what I do versus just like me as a person and my purpose here on earth and I already know for a fact that like my purpose is to do YouTube and to share like my thoughts with you guys and to like communicate this and I know that's my purpose but at the same time it's exhausting for my brain to constantly be thinking about this thinking about content ideas and stuff and it's like when I don't think about it I start to feel guilty like oh shit should I be working towards this blah blah blah and it's like I don't know basically what I'm saying is that it's really easy to get burnt out nowadays like there's so many people with mental health issues and she was also saying this in her videos it's like so many people have issues nowadays because of the pressure that society holds on us it's more than ever now that people are struggling and we're so desensitized to people that we walk by on the street if we see somebody homeless it's like oh yeah that's just normal like we just think that that's normal but it's like no that's not normal that's like society made you think that that is normal it's not normal for people to be on the streets and not have a home it's not normal for somebody to have like so much money to spare on the bank like trillions of billions of dollars in the bank and then there's like population that doesn't even have a roof over their head or food to eat every day and it's so crazy that that's just normal in our society but anyways I don't really know exactly what I'm trying to say here to be completely honest but I'm just expressing my thoughts because our video like really touched me yesterday and it just kind of made me think that it's so important to separate yourself from what you do and just truly take time for yourself and not to feel guilty about it and to take time to reset and enjoy your life aside from your career not to say obviously that I don't love YouTube because I would be doing this regardless of the payment like I would still be posting videos regardless of if I got paid or not so it's not really like about YouTube like what it's not really about how I'm feeling specifically but it's just like in general in life but yeah anyways so I've just been feeling like I'm in a slump and I can't wait to do things today just kind of like get myself back on track this week but yeah anyways breakfast was so good I spilled some like literally the egg flung on to my leggings and I have like a big yellow stain look right here I don't know if you guys can see that but like yeah right there that's nice and nasty okay I just did a 360 outfit change because my leggings were so dirty so I just decided to change my whole outfit and honestly it's kind of chilly in my home because we have such good air conditioning in here that it actually makes it kind of cold like you can wear a crew neck or sweatpants and it's fine so it's kind of cold so I put on this crew neck but anyways right now I just have a couple of things that I want to do so first off I want to make my bed because whenever Joel leaves the house or is the last one to get up he does not make the bed which is fine but it makes me feel better when it's done and also I just have like a little bit in the kitchen to clean I have these bananas that's been going bad for so long but I don't have any zip lock bags so I don't know how to freeze them and they're at the point right now where I just need to make like muffins or something with them so that's what I'm gonna do and there's so many it's kind of stressing me out so probably gonna do that later yeah just gonna tidy a bit around and I also have I have a bunch of laundry and shit to put away so I really want to get this done too before I sit down and start editing because it just makes me feel better being in like a cleaner space okay now I gotta get all of the towels like in the kitchen here this freaking towel like I'm not not gonna bluff it or not gonna lie this towel hasn't been washed probably since before our trip so this has been stinking up in this kitchen for probably a month now and it's disgusting actually didn't smell that bad but like I like to wash these usually every week so that's kind of disgusting but it's fine it's fine we're just gonna gather all of these towels that needs washing because there are a lot of them actually the hand towels in the bathroom these ones also gonna do these our body towels yeah I literally just realized and I was like ew like we haven't washed our towels in a good month so that's kind of gross but it's like we've been away so it's like it's not like the biggest deal just got this one from the other bathroom but anyways let's do a load of laundry okay also our kitchen um like ew dish cloth I haven't washed this in like the same amount of time either but I feel like they just get so disgusting so fast let me know if you guys have like links to good dish cloths like to wipe the table and stuff because I've been using these ones from Ikea but they're white and so they look extra nasty when I like when we use them yeah like I usually wash them once a week but they still like somehow get like really nasty but I think that's just normal for like all dish cloths in general but definitely not bun white again because it makes them look extra nasty so