A smart ray of sunshine
Currently: craving black maynards
I am happy. Are you?
Perhaps I should have been at this stage a long time ago... but better late than never, yeah?
For one reason or the other, life is just wonderful. For the first time in my life, every single thing going on is great - and the key is to be enjoying it, even if it's not. It's amazing how changing your perspective and being
aware about everything can seep into emotion management and flip the world you live in inside out.
School, family, friends, personal goals... seriously, "it's all coming together now", as a friend told me a week ago. I could not be happier going to class... for the first time school is not a chore or an obligation, but something that I look forward to every day, I care about the courses I'm taking, I am interested in my mandatory and tedious courses, and I want to do homework and study and read... the best thing is that all of this applies to every aspect of life really, it's genuine interest and curiosity in everything. I always believed that balance is the most difficult thing to manage in life... and I'm finally mastering it in the way I want.
And for some reason, this isn't just some spurt of motivation from coming back from a trip abroad or anything... it was very, very gradual; alas, changing one's perspective of LIFE isn't an overnight process. But if you take enough time to spend on yourself and just...
think...
Sitting in the TTC every morning... I see the glum faces of corporate slaves dragging themselves to work each day... and although I may as well become one of them in a few years, I won't be! I truly believe in finding work that I'll enjoy, and if not well the personal balance will equal it out...
Anyway, needless to say, I am enjoying life. Are you?
The Stupidest question of all
Before I had even landed, before my departure back home was even remotely close, I had been de-ticipating and trying to answer the question I most dreaded of all:
how was Argentina?
To say that this question is stupid to ask would be a gross understatement. Think of it this way, had I asked
you how your summer had been back home, can you possibly answer it in a few words? And yet why would you answer with "Same old, I worked all summer", with millions of words in the English language to choose from?
So what does everyone expect for an answer? What's expected of me, I know. But what I expect of the questioner is to keep an open mind; understand that this sort of experience is one that individuals go through the most exhilarating times of their lives, as well as the most dark, demanding experiences they'd ever gone through as well. Thus, to force one to answer with a couple of sentences would give the false impression of them having gone through a mediocre adventure. If you are genuinely interested in "how was Argentina", then ask probing questions for it is difficult to determine where to start articulating such a colourful experience, and allow me three hours to explain to you the most amazing and challenging 3 months of my life.
Or go on a CEED yourself.
