Friday, January 01, 2010 @4:32 am
2009 is finally gone and 2010 is here. As the previous year was coming to a close, all I could think about was that the holidays were ending and that school was going to start again. The month break had been a good rest (I've gotten plenty of sleep and chill time), but there were plenty of things I hadn't done.
-Kbox
-Ice Skating
-Picnic
-Sentosa
-Pulau Ubin
I then went on to think about how I needed to pull up my socks in school, quit bejeweled and thoroughly prepare for every single lesson.
So all of my new year thoughts were about school and work, this considering school took up only 13 weeks (out of 49) of my 2009. The lighting pace and giagantic pile of work from school has somehow led to my sort of losing track of my outside world. Life shouldn't be about work, and then fitting friends and outings in. If that were the case, I'd be spending 95% of my time working, and only having time for my friends and family once a month. Then I'd want to only spend my time with a select few people, because this time that I can squeeze out is definitely not enough!
This time last year, I was more concerned with my social life. I had all the time in the world to accomodate my friends' schedules, visiting them in school etc. I always say I miss flying, my passengers, the times with my collegues, the stations etc, one thing I never realised I had then was the time I had for myself to really do what I wanted; things then were really very nicely balanced (except that I could be around on certain days).
Now, life is immersed into school, what social life I have is closely intertwined with my classes and work. Other people will have to be slotted in. Reading Liz's post about 'living for oneself', I sort of know how it feels to not be able to spend as much time with friends and family as you'd like.
Its actually an either or thing. To excel in work, you'd have to put it your priority, your relationships will grow among the people you work with (not that I'm not grateful for my classmates, they've come to become very good friends); but if you want to nurture and maintain your 'old life', other things will have to take a backseat, and it'll be a case of work slotted into one's social life.
In this world, to 'succeed', the choice is made for you, you have to take the first choice. But I don't like seeing so little of my friends, and hence will try to be superwoman and the last resolution for this year would be to work out something to fit it all nicely together.
Happy New Year!!!
you know you love me
and i love you too!