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Labor day weekend. Ahhh… a holiday where we appreciate the work weve put in throughout the year. So this blog is dedicated to that.
Sometimes I get frustrated with not only myself, but society as a whole for not seeing the work thats being executed and put out there throughout the year. And every time that frustration hits, I need to take a step back and recognize that no one is ever going to appreciate the work as much as I will. So we need to continue to push through with taking moments in time to step back and appreciate ourselves for how far weve come.
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That, has been this weekend. As I type this at just past 6pm on the Sunday of Labor day weekend, Im using it as a reflection period. I’ve been working so fucking hard on so many different projects this year. I’ve been burnt out at least a dozen times and there’s still 4 months left in the year.
Labor day falls at a unique time, right? I wonder if its placement within the year was ever strategically thought about? Like, it comes on the back end of summer - the majority of peoples favorite season. Where we spend all of our years savings on some stupid beach vacation blowing money on margaritas and overpriced nachos. A season where we end work early everyday to try and get more vitamin D outside to enjoy the weather while it lasts. And then, right before Fall comes in to lead us into depression again for the winter months, we have one last holiday for ourselves.
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Why one last holiday? Well, prior to that depending on where you live and what the states celebrate, the other holidays are a bunch of crap. Presidents day, patriots day, memorial day… not to say they arent important milestones in history, but theyre irrelevant to todays society. But none of us are going to complain about an extra day off, so we keep them. Then we have labor day… and then? All of the holidays that are suppose to feel like holidays but actual come with extreme stress, anxiety, over eating and over drinking associated to them - just to lead us into a new year where we can do it all over again in the two darkest months of the year (janurary and february).
So yeah, lets fucking enjoy labor day, cause the rest of the ‘days off’ have attachments associated to them - which in turn dont make them feel like holidays. This one is for us.
Below, i’ve drafted out some items that are accomplishments to me. And even if you dont think they are, thats okay, to me they mean a lot. It means even more to be happy with myself for making it this far.
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Painted over 15 works of art
Got into my first gallery
Put in over 100 hours of time into the app clubhouse to meet the most incredible humans on this planet
Studied, learned, informed and practice a new language that is/are NFTs
Made a half a dozen of articles of clothing for myself (from scratch)
Went to the west coast for a road trip with my best friend
Launched my own NFTs
Got promoted
Took a vacation (this is actually rare)
Been a mentor to two different individuals to help them land jobs
Completed 75hard
Have been healthy
and that last one, im most proud of. Without health, nothing else can be accomplished.
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Dont know if i’ll blog again before my 30th birthday (october 2nd) but stay tuned to the projects that will come out / be launched around that time.
Cheers -
DF
