Spending time with loved ones during such seasons is cathartic because it helps you forget about your problems momentarily. Otherwise we risk ruminating endlessly about these challenges and overestimating them when in reality they are not as pressing as we may think. And at times it takes external entities—trusted ones—to break out of this loop. This is a form of brief recess before you go back to your battle.
During this brief period, you shift your attention elsewhere, denying your problems of it and thus diminishing their significance. This is not to make these hurdles frivolous. Not at all. But the frame with which you come back to approach them is often fresh, which puts you in a better position to address them than if you would have stayed in the self-conscious loop.
The other effect is, of course, in interacting with others, you often realize how minuscule your challenges are in the grand scale of things. This grants you carefreeness, which enhances the frame with which you tackle your challenges—taking them less seriously, ironically, leads you to solving them much faster and much easier.
This is well written, Isabel.
Spending time with loved ones during such seasons is cathartic because it helps you forget about your problems momentarily. Otherwise we risk ruminating endlessly about these challenges and overestimating them when in reality they are not as pressing as we may think. And at times it takes external entities—trusted ones—to break out of this loop. This is a form of brief recess before you go back to your battle.
During this brief period, you shift your attention elsewhere, denying your problems of it and thus diminishing their significance. This is not to make these hurdles frivolous. Not at all. But the frame with which you come back to approach them is often fresh, which puts you in a better position to address them than if you would have stayed in the self-conscious loop.
The other effect is, of course, in interacting with others, you often realize how minuscule your challenges are in the grand scale of things. This grants you carefreeness, which enhances the frame with which you tackle your challenges—taking them less seriously, ironically, leads you to solving them much faster and much easier.