BY ALEXA CHERRY
I don’t watch the show Parks and Recreation, but there is a series of screencaps I continually see from it online where two of the characters are flouncing about yelling, “TREAT YO SELF.” I assume they’re yelling, anyway. It’s difficult to tell when the subtitles are always in caps. The premise of this argument seems to be that life is too short to spend struggling through each day. Instead, you should “treat yo self” to one thing every day, because you work hard and you deserve it.
Now, I am all for this mindset, but it’s difficult to achieve in college. We are not full-time parks and rec employees with steady incomes; we are college students, and as such we cannot afford to stop, drop cash, and purchase things to “treat ourselves” just because we feel we’ve worked hard or had a bad day and we deserve it. Even if you think you can afford it, you probably can’t. I find this is a good rule to live by that results in me having more grocery money at the end of the week.
Alright, now that I’ve been the Debbiest of Downers, let me return to this most wise of adages. You do need to treat yourself, but it doesn’t have to be by spending money! Self-care is one of the most important parts of daily life, not to mention young adulthood, and it’s something that is really frequently overlooked in favor of a myriad of things that get in the way: social activities, late-night studying, early-morning studying, work, etc. There are some weeks when everything else in your life seems more important than you, and that’s just not the case. You’re in college to better yourself, not wear yourself to a harried frazzle of a human that can recite entire textbooks verbatim. So settle down and let me tell you about some low-key, inexpensive college ways to “treat yo self.”
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