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Sometimes writers need to recalibrate
I’ve been writing here on Medium every day this year so far. Unfortunately yesterday this writer had one of those days and really just couldn’t mentally go to my laptop and start typing.
While I do feel writing is cathartic to me, yesterday I just felt like I hit a wall and really just needed to recalibrate myself.
I realized that was okay and healthy to do as everyone needs a time out from time to time no matter what they do.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines recalibrate as
: to calibrate (something) again… these systems gradually drift off course so that the navigator periodically needs a fresh point of reference to recalibrate the navigation system.
Recalibrating is not quitting, it’s simply taking a break from the path of this writing journey and just pausing for a second to decide my next step. And so yesterday I just felt I needed to do that and then come back to it today and I’m glad I’ve done that because I do feel better for it.
Maybe I was just tired or maybe it was the stress the past few months of having my apartment repaired from water damage finally caught up to me I’m not sure, even though finally last week repairs had been completed
