my august recap

 08/30/2024

As the day keeps passing by, it just hit me that we’re near the end of the year. Time flies when you’re busy facing and trying to win the challenges life has in store for you.

A little recap: I started working again, but not the traditional way. “WFH” or Working From Home is what others would call it. I guess this fits better with me since I would prefer to stay away but get in touch with people at the same time, if you get what I mean.

With the new job come trainings and bumps along the way, and that’s where my ego kicks in. See, I worked in the dunes of the UAE for a total of 8 years, and I thought that everything would be easy. But I was wrong; on paper, it sounds great, so you start to embody the greatness of it.

To sum it up, I let my ego get into my system, thinking that there’s no job I can’t do with my work experience. But it turns out that’s not the case. So I had to reassess myself and let go of the ego attached to my system. Re-learn and be a trainee, not a tenured employee. And the moment I let go of that, everything started making sense.

The lesson I learned from there is that not all the time can you do things the same way when you change the path you’re walking on. It’s like when a baby tries to learn how to walk; they start to crawl and eventually take their first step. So switching jobs is like being a child again; you learn things and slowly figure things out on your own.

Apart from the new job, I started collecting CDs, considering recording again, writing a book, and started accepting and finding new ways to make my life easier and eventually start somewhere else. Baby steps, as what other people say. Hopefully, my baby steps will become successful adult steps, and I’ll keep crossing my fingers for that.

High school friends I haven’t met in years are here as well, and I try to spend as much time with them whenever I can because eventually, they’ll be going back to where they are based, and some of them are only here finishing research, while others are here visiting their families.

As the day comes and passes by, I realize that my high school friends are my real friends and know me very well. To sum it up, they are my real people and not the shallow ones I met overseas.