1 Year Later

Well, I have now lived overseas for a full year already. To be honest, I never really expected this to happen. In fact, I didn't even want to come here in the first place! The trip was originally supposed to be a couple of weeks vacation to see relatives that I haven't seen in ages. Then we decided that it'd grow into a couple of months as I was unemployed. But when I got there (here), I just decided what the heck, why not stay longer and try my luck at a job here. After all, I figured the time to work abroad is now, when I had no commitments. The work culture is definitely different, but if any, it reminds me of university. I can easily spend >12 hrs a day at the office. Weekends would also be spent with my coworkers because frankly, I don't have time during weekdays to meet new people. So to me, this is just as if I was in school, where I essentially spent the entire week with the same people. Fortunately, my coworkers are pretty cool.

I'm not too sure what to do next, as everyone is asking when I'm moving back. I still don't know. Yes, I do miss my old pals, but like a kid at Disneyland, I don't want to go home yet. Although, I have to admit it's starting to feel like home, even if I have trouble writing the language XD I guess I still feel like there's so much to explore here. Maybe I'll know what I'm doing when I found it. Whatever it may be.

A thought occurred to me a few days ago. For a moment, I felt nothing interested me anymore. It is probably not as profound as the understanding of how being compassionate is to feel pain, but it dawned on me that it was most likely because I had easy access to the things that I once found interesting. I then started wondering if the rich are really as happy as we think they'd be... Please note I'm not saying their life is hard, just that maybe they are not as happy as what we think wealth may bring. Maybe it just depends on how one values short-term and long-term happiness. Are they equal?

Haha, I originally just wanted to share my "wise" words of the day: "We all carry a world on our shoulders. It's called our head." Yet somehow, I wrote a whole bunch of other crap. Welcome to my world.