life balance

I get asked by friends on how I handle my life between my day job, my interests, spending quality time with my parents, taking care of my sisters (make sure they don't throw food at each other), weekly date with my boyfriend, occasional meet ups with my friends, then there is shopping, hehehe and now I'm blogging. My friends wonder how haven't I pulled my hair out balancing all these.

I'm not so sure that it's balanced, so much as juggled. I have always had varied interests and I never wanted my day job to lessen the room I have for my personal life; be it making time for my loved ones or pursuing my other interest or everything stated in above paragraph. It's very tough that it gets frustrating sometimes but always always try to make it work. I mean, come on, I'm not married, I don't have kids, this is nowhere to compare to that. That has got to be tougher, no?

I can be a very restless person. I love being productive and having things to do. But I don't want to be busy. I want to be efficient. I don't know if it's the upbringing but  I can see that we're raised to pride ourselves on being workhorses, sometimes to the point of absurdity. We are confusing 'busy' with 'dedication'. Admit it, we've all been there. Running around all day, attending meetings, completing paperwork. You should see me running in my heels. My shoe game was a champ!

I like writing. I'm the person who has to write things down, which is why it's very disappointing to not have the time to sit and get my thoughts out. 

You hear that? 

Thoughts. 

Plural. 

That's right, 

I have thoughts. 

And wisdom. 

Get my thoughts and wisdom out.

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Bahahahahahaha

OK no. 

No thoughts. I just ramble a lot. Ramble, vent, whine, moan, think, consider, observe, and have them all translated from my brains to this laptop by this keyboard. Write, and write and write and write. If I have to say, I'll say it's the patience and motivation that keeps the action going. 

Wow, this post is getting into pretty serious topic huh? I'm really giving motivational talk and all. Ok, if we wanna do this, let's do it right. Go get yourself a drink, go. Now turn on some music. Preferably classical music. Ready now? Ok read on.

I know people started up a blog and abandon it after couple of months. Don't be that person who contributed to the Internet wasteland. Don't be that person that gives a bad reputation to other bloggers. Don't be someone who throws some babble up for a gossip because they MUST be able to get famous of this blogging shit. All things are earned.

This thing is a marathon. You run 5km and want to quit. You run 10km and want to puke. You run 20 km and struggle to remember why you started.

Keep running.

By running I meant writing. If I meant running, I would have died at 5km.

Keep throwing your words out because somewhere someone is listening to you. It may be someone who struggling the same thing you are writing about. Someone who stumbling through life with the same way you stumble every day. They heard you. Your voice meant something. And you don't even know it. 

Forget about the word count. Who says a blog post has to be 700 words! The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Just write your heart out. Get your closed ones in. Tell them about your blog. You might wanna exclude your parent because of all the F word you drop in your writing. Haha!

Do because you like it. Do because it frees you. Do because it works out for you. When everything else doesn't seem to work out. Do. And do it again. Even if you only have 20 people that reads your writing. Let that motivate you, not stunt you.

Now turn up the music.

Finish your drink.