Got my bachelors degree today.
I struggled with pretty severe anxiety throughout university, but I managed to pull through.
So for those of you who may be in the same boat as I was: being handed your certificate is worth it. Even when you want to quit/feel like you’re not good enough... your graduation is your chance to prove yourself wrong and show your resilience.
Today I managed to prove past me wrong, and prove to my current self that I can make it.
Because once that certificate is in your hands, all the bad times are left behind, and all of the good are carried with you.
Better times are ahead. Stick it out, at least for a little while.
(And if you can’t: regardless of the reason I have a huge amount of respect for you for giving it a go. As they say: you don’t know until you try, and there is a world of opportunity despite the doom and gloom)
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i feel like i do generally pretty well at seeming normal and functional on the surface so people maybe like don't believe me that i find certain things as difficult as i do find them. or i might be just making this up in my mind out of paranoia lol. or i may also be overestimating how normal i appear and maybe i do actually come off like a complete freak
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we had no idea one of our friends was afraid of drops and stuff for theme park rides, and after fussing about it back and forth in line, he finally agreed to join our first time on the rise of the resistance and he held my hand for like half the exp LMAO
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gosh I'm so sick of people ready to give up on their sports dogs after a few years.
Like my best agility dog didn't give a single fuck about what I wanted or doing stuff with me until she was 8 years old. And you're ready to give up on a 3 year old dog? C'mon. These are also pretty much always the people who are just completely unwilling to TRY a different sport that maybe their dog would enjoy more. "Oh he won't do agility but he really likes swimming and retrieving but NO I DO AGILITY I won't even consider that he'd like dock diving." Or they won't even consider that they need to take a step back from whatever sport, and work on more relationship building, stress relief, confidence building, basic obedience, etc etc. Sometimes you just gotta go out and do something else for a change of pace or to learn valuable skills you can take back to the other sport. Gosh Haley became a completely different dog after I took her to rally classes at 6. She was confident, focused, less frustrated, and way less anxious. All that transferred back into the agility ring and made her a Damn Good Dog when previously she'd been barky, jumpy, easily frustrated.
It's all about the young dogs and doing it now now now. Tbh this is why I love that so many of my students are senior dogs. Don't have to deal with the stupid pressure sporty people put on their baby dogs.
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