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How moving soil can save your Mental Health
I can imagine that like many of you on this platform, we spend countless hours everyday bolted to a seat or a leaning up against our standing desk doing work. Work that primarily consists of writing and replying to emails, writing content for your personal or business use and always pushing to monetise your time to little or no avail on many occasions.
You could say that those days are fruitful and that you have achieved a lot for the day. You probably did a morning workout, wrote thousands of words strewn across varying platforms. You may even say that these days have garnered you lots of achievement.
I however, am struggling with this reality. I had found myself in a similar situation, I was a third year University student studying Law and Political Science, doing daily walking as my cardio, writing out 2000–3000 words essays for my studies on a regular basis. I would finish these essays though and see that word count at the bottom of my page and not feel any true sense of achievement. I should though right, that word document represented 20–30 hours of my time toiling over one piece of work to get it to a point of completion.
It all just felt wasteful to me. I had gotten to the point where finishing a 3000 word essay gave me the same sensation of wasting my time as binge watching seasons of a show in Netflix. I…
