Category: Life

Turning 22

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21 was an amazing year. This was the year I would reach a handful of feats; including staging my original play, stage managing for the first time, going on an international service trip for the first time, and graduating from college. There were many lessons in personal tribulations, academic foes, and social happenings. I faced a lot of adversity this year in the form of micro aggressions, self-confidence, and emotional turmoil. In the last 12 months, I think I have learned so much about myself and my capacities. I always have to remind myself that I don’t have to be as social or as successful as others (similarly, everyone else doesn’t have to be my kind of social and successful). I’m the kind of person that needs to stop and breathe when there’s too much happening at one time. Once I take that breathe, I find the strength to move forward.

22 is the year I move forward. 🙂 This is the year I will reach a few more feats, learn a few more lessons, and face a little more adversity. 🙂 This is the year I become a little more of who I’m meant to be. I can’t wait. 🙂

Here are some things I’d like to do before I turn 23:

  1. Plan an international trip
  2. Visit a new city
  3. Bake more cookies
  4. Read more!
  5. Take better conscious care of my body
  6. Write plays (3)

Bring It All Back

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PART 1
Recently, I’ve been watching How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. I had watched the first four seasons a few years back, but I stopped watching it because I got a little bored of the outrageous character personalities. Now, I really did enjoy watching it because I liked the storyline and the storytelling is original. So I’m on season six now (no spoilers, pls).

PART 2
I just stumbled upon a cover of S Club 7’s Bring It All Back. For your memory, the chorus goes like this:

Don’t stop, never give up
Hold your head high and reach the top
Let the world see what you have got
Bring it all back to you

PART 3
In the last two months, I have graduated from college, moved out of my parents’ house, moved into my own townhouse, and submitted over 50+ job applications (not including the 50+ apps since March). I’ve been to five interviews and for four out of five, did not move forward in the process. Now, I’m crossing my finger for the fifth one, but…

In HIMYM, the whole storyline is about how these adults figure out their lives. There’s a few episodes/seasons where things kinda suck for them. Older Ted seems to always be narrating “It wasn’t a good year for me” or “Robin just got out of a serious relationship” or something else to that effect.

Combine bad years and relationship problems with Bring It All Back’s catchy and upbeat message… you get a thoughtful reflection on a few things:

  1. Admitting that things are rough right now
  2. Being okay with it
  3. Keeping your chin up
  4. Never giving up
  5. Finding new opportunities to grow

I guess that’s post-grad life for me so far. It’s a weird, transition-y time right now.

P.S. I wrote this blog post kind of like a HIMYM episode. Just imagine the camera swishing back and forth between clips of me watching Netflix and YouTube and going from one job interview to the next.

August 1st

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I think know I am becoming restless. I graduated college eight weeks ago, found a townhouse and moved out of my parents’ house four weeks ago, and told myself to start writing a play two weeks ago.

Welp, here I am. Trying to muster up enough creative spirit/muse/motivation/anything to start writing while at the same time doing my best to HUSTLE for my first job post-college. Not sure how to do either of those things, but they’re probably not unrelated.

My restlessness comes from frustration and stress in both my creative and professional goals. But I think it comes from my personal happenings. I mean, I did just graduate from college and I did just move out of my parents’ house. That’s huge, no matter who you are. I’ve gone through this enormous transition, impressing my parents that I found a townhouse and pushing myself to land a job. I’m putting pressure on myself to be the best. To be perfect. I know that’s not how it is… maybe I’m naive.

Anyway. Maybe putting my goals on the internet will help me to both keep myself accountable and to clear my head:

Creative: Write a play (first draft) by August 19th.
Professional: Get a job by the end of the month.

I’ll let you know how it goes.