i spent 115 days of this year listening to music

that no matter how fast your heart beats, your brain pulses, and how fast you try to move, you physically feel as if you are walking through quicksand to even perform the most basic of actions

whilst your brain is mentally racing, it’s all you can do to maintain a steady, average physical pace to whatever you’re doing - whether that’s the dishes, an exam, a meeting or simply walking somewhere

I get like this a lot, especially when I’m stressed - which unsurprisingly I am right now, as it’s exam season

I’ve already sat through two exams with my brain racing, yelling at me to write faster, to get the numbers and sums down before they spilled out of my brain, whilst my hand moved frustratingly slowly