New Sense of New Year

For the most part that I have been conscious of time, I've never really saw how a second's change every time the year ends could mean so much. It was simply just another day changing for me. Plus fireworks, food, and some fun, of course.

Eventually though, the powers that be gave me much reason to see how a new year is really a good start.

Earlier last month, my grandmother moved on to unphysical things.

At about the same time, things snowballed in my first job. Conflicts in values arose and circumstances led me to knowing that I've lost too much time already with my family and even with friends. It was time for me to be more regular. The thought "I miss my weekends" have been lingering in my mind for months already and this was the nudge that it was now time to go. I did want to go earlier but the nature of the job asked me to stay even up to just the end of the previous year.

Another family-related change was that my sister finally came back home. She did try living on her own but it's still different financially when you do live at home. The change is in adjusting to having her here again practically all the time as we are both jobless as of now. By choice for me, at least.

With changes always come opportunities. Being jobless has made me open to more time to learn driving, finding a job that I could love more and where I could apply what I studied more, and more rediscoveries and discoveries.

It's not just the year that has changed, but my existence has made a sharp but welcome curve.