Resolving issues with oneself

I've learnt a few things today, ONE : we all are broken hearts, and it's not that we're not hurting, we still are, but we've learnt to hide the pain away, or to forget about it completely. and TWO : that it's not necessary that we live that way. True we all have our problems and hard times. but just forgetting about it or letting it hurt you isn't going to help, instead we should accept it and say or write it out once. Believe me it gives a feeling of salvation, satisfaction and did you know when you explain a problem to someone step by step and how and what exactly is bothering you, most of the times you yourself will be able to find out the solution. Now I know you'll say What nonsense is this ? how is telling someone about it or writing it going to help us accept it ?

Here I'll refer to a debugging technique about which I learnt today, it's called "The Rubber Duck debugging" It's a very simple method for a debugger to find a glitch in the program he/she has written. All you need is a rubber duck, and you explain it every single line of the code and what it's supposed to do as opposed to what it's actually doing. And the next thing you know, you've found the bug and Bang ! your job is done. All the while the duck will sit and listen to you patiently and you can also reward it by taking to the water xD (just kidding). But you see this is a very old technique, it was published in a book The Pragmatic Programmer written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Reviews say it's More than useful, it's inspiring.

But coming back to the point, you see how it is important to sort out the issues that trouble us be it a conversation with yourself, or your loved and trusted ones, be it a diary or as above mentioned a rubber duck ! I'll give you my own example, I was to complete two different programming tasks, but I didn't, I procrastinated and ended up kind of loosing interest in them. I felt guilty for that. this did not stop here, My friend asked me to be there at his place at a given time, but I couldn't do it, Why ? because I was sleep deprived and ended up sleeping more than a hour and half past the given time. woke up filled with guilt, Mom noticed it as soon as she saw me (you see ? that's the magic only Moms can do, no matter how much you try to hide it, they'll know exactly how you feel) She came over sat by my side and talked to me about it, and i myself ended up telling her why I couldn't wake up when I had to. It was there that I realised that I wasn't sleeping properly and somehow all of my issues were related to this.