This week, I uninstalled the Instagram app on my smartphone and deactivated my Facebook account. I have done this several times in the past, but I was always back after a few days or weeks. (The longest I lasted was when I was reviewing for my board exams)
Now, I want to make it different. It's not easy but am determined to let this decision stick.
I don't know exactly when the people of my generation decided to make "adult" a verb (and call it "adulting"), but the term is here and has been put into mainstream consciousness.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, adulting refers to the practice of "behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks."
Millennials, us damn complainers (complaints magnified moreso by social media), traipse around aimlessly like big babies because we're going through life stages that other generations have gone through much later in life. We look up to other [older] adults at awe and ask how they manage to get their shit together, and realize that now, we're adults ourselves! We struggle to reconcile that fact the same way we struggle with the management of our day-to-day mundanity.
Anyway, I've legally been an adult for almost a decade now, and while I'm also continually learning, I feel like I've been well-versed on dealing with a lot of adult stuff to be able to dish out some helpful advice on how to make adulting a little bit easier.
Today marks the exact day since I came back home from Manila a year ago. So many things have changed, and some have stayed the same. I want to make sense of how I did and what I feel about it, so I'll break it down right here.
Before anything else, allow me to say that although South Korea was on my bucket list of places to go, it wasn't at the top most. As in, I don't follow KPop groups and I seldom watch KDramas. I am more Western-inclined, and Europe is still my numero uno travel goal destination.
I did not expect that I will get to visit South Korea as soon as 5 months after passing the board exam. To think I don't have work yet! It all started when my best friend Ayessa, who started getting hooked on KDramas, booked us tickets to Seoul on a Cebu Pacific sale. She's been bugging me to travel together since we reconnected 5 years ago, and since she would be getting married in July, I knew that this time, I couldn't say no.
We stayed for 9 days in the second week of April, which was in time for cherry blossom season. Let me tell you, it was glorious! But before the fun part (which is landing in Korea and getting our fill of whatever we want out of it), let us start with the nitty gritty basics.
A few days ago, I realized that it has been 5 months since I found out that I passed the Chemical Engineering Licensure Exam and became a bonafide engineer. I am working as a freelance content writer and I also tutor on the side. I took on these jobs temporarily to pay for my trip to South Korea (coming up in a blog post soon!), but I find that I enjoy freelancing. I enjoy working from home: pants are optional, I do not have to commute, I can leave or wake up whenever I want, and I love what I'm doing: writing, learning, and imparting knowledge and appreciation for the sciences to younger minds.
However, I know that something's amiss.
Hey guys! So the last time we were here on this blog to discuss goals and goal setting was last year's Midyear Review, where I also shared with you my Theme or Word for 2016, which was to DO. So far, I did cross a few things off my list but I haven't gotten around to writing about them. As for the other items, well, I started acting on them and they are well in motion for this year.
Hi all! It's been a long time coming for this post. I was supposed to publish it for my 25th birthday last year but because I chose to focus more on my board exam and not my blog, this list (and my other blog entries) had to wait. I thought starting off my backlogs with this one in the new year would be perfect--maybe you could learn a bit from the lessons I've learned from my own mistakes and change your mindset or correct yourself before it's too late.
These are a few lessons I've learned which often recur at different stages in my life this past quarter century. I mean, if life has been trying to teach me a specific lesson over and over, maybe it just means that I should learn it and never forget it.
