Hey everyone! In case you didn’t know, this blog turned two years old sometime during the month of March 2019 (I’m sorry that I don’t know the exact date offhand!). I know it’s been a long time since I’ve written, so today I wanted to share an update with you about how I’ve been and reflect on my two year journey of figuring my life out.
First, you should know that I turned 30 in February, and in the months leading up to my birthday I felt quite depressed and unsettled. I felt like I still wasn’t quite where I wanted to be in life (more on that later), and felt as if I’d somehow failed myself. I’m glad to report that after turning 30, that’s no longer much of an issue, as I’m fully re-committed to achieving all of my important life goals.
Reflecting on two years of “A Land Called Me”
I learned and accomplished so so much since this blog began. When I think back to the state of mind that I was in when this blog first began, and how badly I wanted to change my life around, I can really see how much I’ve changed for the better in certain ways. Of course, there’s still more growing that I need to do, but that’s just a fact of life.
One of the things I’m most happy about since starting this blog was figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I’m a born creative. I always knew that. But while I used to enjoy expressing my creativity through music, these days I enjoy expressing it through coding much more. I know now that I want to have a career as a web developer. It felt so great discovering that in 2017 and taking it even further in 2018, when I lived for six months in Barcelona doing a software engineering bootcamp, applying to jobs there, and expanding my network (again, more on that later!).
But despite making that great revelation about my life, I’m still nowhere near to what I’ve dreamed for my life. My career life is blossoming but nowhere near full bloom, and … let’s not even talk about my love life. It’s still in ‘coming soon’ mode. But I’m sure that all of that’s about to change in 2019. I know it will.
There’s still so much to figure out
Basically, this project of mine is still not complete. There’s still so much more to say on the subject of figuring it all out. There’s still so many more pages to turn in my book of life. If anything, I’d like to enjoy it just a bit more instead of worrying or panicking so much. But this is something I will also try to tackle as time goes on.
I wish my writing could be more consistent, as I still believe in sharing my stories and lessons learned to help others who might be feeling uncertain in their life’s direction, and hopefully inspire them to take action to get to where they want to be. Unfortunately, my current schedule makes it a bit difficult to fit some writing time in so I can keep delivering more posts as often as I would like. If anything, I’m going to try to write at least one post every two weeks to try to remedy the situation.
In the next couple posts, I’m going to be talking a bit about my life in Barcelona last year and what I learned from that experience. I’m also going to talk about what it’s been like since turning 30 and some of the things I’ve been doing to achieve my goals. There may even be some beauty tips thrown in there, because people, adult acne is a very real thing!
Last but not least …
If you’ve read this, thank you for being here, and I hope that my posts have helped you in some way. I at least hope that you got the message that you aren’t alone in terms of figuring your life out or wanting more for yourself. We both share that same struggle. Just know that I got you, and hopefully you got me too. Thank you.
