Burnout is real.

It can sneak up on you at any given point while you’re in the mix of any work you’re into. It can happen during rest, like it did for me most of last week. It’s also why I missed posting on Wednesday and Friday.

Admitted I am doing enough to get by, but last week I also started a course in Classical Sociology. It’s an 8-week course that you can do at your own pace, but I had a lead foot and made it to the start of Week 5’s material.

Inspiration to take this on came in twofold.

The first was inspired by notes I found from a sociology class I took years ago, which I only did to get credits to move forward in an unrelated major. I’m sure there was zero interest in it, but I’m glad I had the notes to skim through.

The second inspiration lied in everything I’ve written on here since 2022. I feel it has some tie to the social science that goes beyond what I’ve discovered in old and current personal circles.

Much like me discovering my sources of bonding to emotional and mental abuse, I find this class to be great for learning the origins of sociology. Where it takes me from here is yet to be seen.

Even in its completion, it’ll be a great thing to share on my resume when the time comes to move up where I am, or move on to where I’m meant to be.

So if I disappear again on this new educational journey without notice, I’m okay. May even be the first time that I’ve left without warning, and I’ll try not to do it again.

D.F.