Day 19: Stronger Than Yesterday

I've been having a particular stressor (which I will not elaborate over the web. Sorry, I'm not ready to share intimate details of my life to make things juicy and to gain more followers). Yesterday, I was a mess. I went into shock and I felt hopeless. I felt so overwhelmed that I could not function nor could I seize worrying about it. Tears flowed involuntarily. I felt so weak. But then I remembered that I was slightly sleep deprived and sleep deprivation makes me very susceptible to my emotions. I got 8 hours of sleep this time (part of it was interrupted by my cat waking me up at 3:30AM by kissing me) and I felt stronger. The stressor still exists and it fills me with worry, but today I feel like I can handle it. I feel like it wont rule me. I feel like I can overcome it. I have hope. Sometimes I feel like my sense of hope becomes shaky and seems to dissipate. Nevertheless, hope still exists. I grasp onto that hope, because that's the only thing that is keeping me going.