Greetings, Fellow Friend.

Well, this sucks.

Three weeks ago I embarked on my one-week journey to attaining eternal peace, hoping that I would spend some time to try and get myself back together (in other words – to start committing myself to doing my own things). I truly imagined it would be a good chance for me to finally settle my to-do list, since our company was finally taking a break for year-end.

However, what really happened was me spending most of my time going out, lazing at home or playing my console games. There was a Christmas sleepover in between and it was a fun night where I gathered my friends just to snuggle and watch movies together. I also found time to travel down to Page One’s warehouse sale (only to grab a book by Tess Gerritsen, which I have always wanted to buy but never got to do so). Weekends were nothing special, but I took pleasure in taking outdoor strolls to the nearest cafe for breakfast, or to the market for brunch.

I barely set enough time for serious business and frankly, there was nothing to my new year resolution. I never gave much thought about that because to me it was just a transition from one year to another. Or maybe it was because I no longer have a new goal in mind. Setting new goals for yourself is indeed essential to being self-motivated constantly, but once again I have nothing to say about that for myself. My long-term goal, however, is to finally have my own place, but there is still a long, long way to go.

All of what I have been doing has almost nothing to do with design, and having been dealing with all that work these few months, I guess I really deserved that break. There isn’t a point in exhausting my mind and challenging myself to create better things if I am not even feeling rejuvenated. So one piece of advice to those of you who are feeling severely unmotivated about life and everything else – help yourself by going on a vacation.

And maybe I do have a new year resolution after all, which is to continue living in contentment.