"I once thought I had mono for an entire year, turns out I was just really lazy."
- Wayne Campbell
We run around: young, newly professional, maintaining relationships and our lingering collegiate social circles all while experimenting in the undersized kitchens in our apartments. Maybe we get to the gym, or go out for a run, but a late night with Anna's or the Golden Arches quickly brings us back to zero.
Please disregard my poor sentence structure, but I am trying to paint a picture. I have always been a terrible painter.
Life in China is a roller coaster, busy weeks and lazy ones, hectic ones and hedonistic ones, and sometimes everything is due at the same time. I guess that sounds no different from home, and I apologize for not being better able to describe why, but it is.
I honestly thought I was just tired from work and late nights, then I thought it was just cold out, and that it was just jet lag. It was not, and it is the reason I am currently still in the US. Everyone uses the term 'wearing yourself thin', and perhaps it is that sense of invincibility that leads us to say we are doing it to ourselves, but never really think it will actually happen. Now, I didn't get myself anything chronic or terminal, so perhaps I'm over dramatizing it, but it certainly was a bit of a wake-up call for someone who has never had anything more severe than a touch of the flu.
It's been one hell of a way to welcome in the new decade, but you've got to stay positive, and keep an optimistic eye out for the coming years. These are the handful of years that will dictate the next 30 for many of us. It's a bit daunting, but challenges keep us sharp. Stay healthy everyone.
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