Lately, I've been feeling overwhelmed.

I took some time off work over the holidays and now that the new year has started and everything else is starting back up again, I think I'm just feeling overwhelmed by it all. I had an amazing time decompressing over my time off; spent a lot of time with friends and family, spent a lot of time on my hobbies, started this blog, so many good things that are good for the soul. I have always had a difficult time with post-vacation blues when getting back into my routine. The better the vacation, the harder the blues hit and safe to say this was an amazing vacation.

I am also feeling a little lost in terms of what to do. I have many good things going for me in life but sometimes I still feel like I'm falling behind and that leaves an unfulfilling feeling that is hard to deal with.

Something I think about a lot is a few panels from Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (the recent run) where Peter is talking to Uncle Ben about not knowing what to do and Uncle Ben drops a nice piece of advice for him:

You ever heard the saying, "inaction is action"?

Well, that's just a garbage way of saying don't spend your life waiting for something to happen. Make it happen.

I love you, son... but if you're walking around half asleep... anesthetized by your own life...

Then wake up.

This post is a pep talk to myself that I need to calm down a bit, slow my thoughts down, find out what I want, and make a step forward. Some steps will be small, some will be big, but making that step forward will push me towards whatever I am trying to do. Don't get held up by mistakes, that's part of the process.

And as the old saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day.