{"id":26456,"date":"2015-11-19T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=26456"},"modified":"2016-03-29T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:44:34","slug":"that-forgetting-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/11\/19\/that-forgetting-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"That Forgetting Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"You know that thing that sometimes happens when you\u2019re about to fall asleep but then all of a sudden you feel like you\u2019re falling, you jerk violently, and you\u2019re wide awake again? That\u2019s how I feel when I\u00a0realize I have forgotten something.<\/span>\r\n\r\nI don\u2019t usually forget things; I\u2019m a reasonably organized person and I have systems that I use to keep on top of things.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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<\/span> An oldie but a goodie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nEvery now and then, though, the occasional task slips through the cracks. One such occasion was just a little while ago. I\u2019m taking this really interesting Legal Workshops course; I get to attend a few workshops at the Faculty of Law throughout the year. At the beginning of September, I chose the workshops I was interested in and signed up. I marked the workshops I signed up to attend in my calendar. I put them on my phone. You may have guessed, however, that I recently missed one.<\/span>\r\n\r\nI don\u2019t really know how it happened. I guess I was just preoccupied with other assignments and commitments\u2014it was midterms week\u2014and the workshop completely slipped my mind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe whole thing made me really upset; I actually cried about it. I CRIED. (That may have had something to do with the aforementioned midterm stress, but I digress).<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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<\/span> Midterm stress got me like...<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nForgetting the workshop made me feel really stupid; I looked at my calendar the night before and somehow I still managed to forget it? Wow, I\u2019m such an airhead. I\u2019m so irresponsible. Now I have to e-mail my prof and see if I can sign up for another workshop and I don\u2019t even have a good excuse for why I missed it and this is so embarrassing and I just want to sink into a hole and\u2026<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u2026So on and so forth.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMaybe you think I\u2019m being dramatic; I think that I was being dramatic, too. I e-mailed my prof and she got back to me really quickly. She was very understanding and I have since been to a replacement workshop. Problem solved?<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn a way, yes. At the same time, there is an underlying problem here that needs addressing. I need to re-evaluate how I react to forgetting things. Instead of looking for potential solutions, my knee-jerk reaction was self-loathing. That\u2019s not good. It\u2019s not healthy and it\u2019s not productive.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMaybe you can relate to that jolt-to-the-heart sensation that you get when you realize you have forgotten something or to that awful self-loathing that comes after the realization.<\/span>\r\n\r\nI\u2019m here to tell you that if you flaked on a study date, missed a meeting, or even forgot a due date, it\u2019s okay. In the immortal words of Hannah Montana, nobody\u2019s perfect. Don\u2019t beat yourself up about it; that\u2019s just wasted energy. Instead, expend that energy solving the problem. Apologize profusely for making your friend sit in that Robarts study room all alone\u2014sending a cute cat gif would be a nice touch. Put some time in to compensate for the meeting you missed. E-mail your professor, let them know the situation, and get started on that late assignment straight away!<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe only way you\u2019re going to feel better about forgetting something is by fixing the problem that the forgetting created. Once that\u2019s done, you can forget about the whole thing!<\/span>\r\n\r\n
\"Whiskers<\/a>
<\/span> Whiskers here thinks you're a star, even if you forget things sometimes. Gif courtesy of http:\/\/socawlege.com\/<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know that thing that sometimes happens when you\u2019re about to fall asleep but then all of a sudden you feel like you\u2019re falling, you jerk violently, and you\u2019re wide awake again? That\u2019s how I feel when I\u00a0realize I have forgotten something.<\/span>\r\n\r\nI don\u2019t usually forget things; I\u2019m a reasonably organized person and I have systems that I use to keep on top of things.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
\"Pictured:<\/a>
<\/span> An oldie but a goodie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nEvery now and then, though, the occasional task slips through the cracks. One such occasion was just a little while ago. I\u2019m taking this really interesting Legal Workshops course; I get to attend a few workshops at the Faculty of Law throughout the year. At the beginning of September, I chose the workshops I was interested in and signed up. I marked the workshops I signed up to attend in my calendar. I put them on my phone. You may have guessed, however, that I recently missed one.<\/span>
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