Hit the RESET button

Without going into depressing detail, I hit a breaking point recently, and elected to take some time off from school. For the next 8 weeks, it is my time to relax, recharge, and most of all, grieve for my the loss of my dad. Over the past year I thought that if I just kept myself distracted enough, with enough activities - school, racing, traveling, etc. - that I would be able to cope and move on as everyone expects. Well that has not been the case, especially when I've been trying to just plow through it all. I realized that even while my accolades were growing, my life has been a struggle, draining the very motivation that normally fuels me. It became a matter of choice - making the hard choices in order to re-sow the seeds of success. It became a matter of priority, and a matter of healing from the inside out. I now believe in the cliche, as difficult as it is, 'it just takes time.'