When I have been involved in many things for a long time, I wii even not know how to relax myself though I do need an outlet. To tell the truth, I have not been to the markets or the stores for shopping, or seen any films the whole year except the days when my BF was here with me, back from overseas. I am not sure what is your situation as a phd student or graduate student. Maybe your sleeping hours decrease a lot in the periods before graduation and the days waiting for the results of many experiments. In this case what will you do to relax yourself and give your body and your brain some time to breath, to digest, and to refresh for the coming stages?
I love poems, so some lyrics and sentences will come up to me often when I am free, alone on the way from the lab to the dorm in the evening, be it sunny, rainy, windy or snowy, be it spring, summer, autumn or winter. Sometimes the busier I am, the more I write. Other times I put nothing down for nearly a month. To write is only one outlet for me. The other is to walk and to see the transitions of seasons in the nature, which is a simplified and convenient way of travelling and climbing. On the first day it warmed up in Zhenjiang a week ago I toured my campus by bicycle in the sunset after supper. I was excited by the pleasant weather and the signals for the coming of a new seasn, the spring, so I made the decision right away, washed my bike that was stored for the whole winter. I wanted to weather the season just like the plants, a worm in the soil. HAHA. It turned out to be a good time for I had not seen the place I work and live well for half a year. I heard the wind, saw the lights were lit one by one in the falling darkness. Only that time I feel I was alive and real, not lonely, not like a machine, not too ordinary.
Another similar experience happened yesterday afternoon. My younger friends in the lab invited me to fly a kite around Xiji DU, a famous old port at the Yangtze River. I thought for some seconds that my thesis was not completed and it was pressing and then I was cheered up by the envious kind weather and the golden afternoon. I joined them, bought a kite in the shape of an owl and had a great time.
Just do the things you like to relax yourself.
i will be grateful if you can share your stories with me.
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