One Year Later — How Are You Doing?

I’m not really certain how to commence this. it’s been a although — and by a although, I signify a calendar year.

Honestly, I have been putting off crafting this post. I needed to produce one thing eloquent and touching, to summarize COVID and BLM and what it is like to stay by way of these periods. But each time I commenced, I fell short. So I quit.

But I’ve realized I really don’t have to generate a thing meaningful and profound. I just have to create.

Lifetime updates

I sense fortunate that this pandemic hasn’t been far too really hard on me. When lockdown happened, my mothers and fathers have been sort more than enough to enable me transfer out of my very small apartment and move into their home. I have not dropped any friends or relatives. I spent most of the summer months quarantining in Northern Michigan, which is the ideal put to quarantine because there is in essence no 1 there.

I experience poor admitting that a whole lot of optimistic matters have occurred to me in the earlier yr. I concluded graduate faculty. I got a job as a UX designer at Deloitte. I got a pet (!) named Alfie. I fell in enjoy with road-tripping, browsing 7 national parks. And I discovered a place to stay that I enjoy! I now live in Austin, Texas.

But, of system, it hasn’t been all roses. There have been weeks when I’ve doomscrolled endlessly, refreshing the New York Times’ household website page an embarrassing amount of money of periods. I have strengthened some friendships, but others have fallen by the wayside. Occupation-looking through a pandemic was grueling — it took me 6 months to land a work after I graduated. And never even get me began on remaining single in the course of a pandemic.

But all in all, I know how lucky I am. In the grand scheme of items, I just cannot complain.

A calendar year away from running a blog has taught me that I genuinely do miss it. I pass up writing. I overlook sharing book tips (you men always have the greatest ones). I pass up having a space that is all mine.

I’m not confident I’ll ever site as consistently as I applied to, but I still want to examine in from time to time.

Which sales opportunities me to the question: How are you, genuinely? What has this calendar year been like for you? Are you experience hopeful or worn out, or each?

Sending you really like, anywhere and even so you are.