In the past two days, I’ve had some of the most packed schedules of all year. It was back to back meetings and sessions, and all I did was go home to sleep and repeat. Tomorrow I have a slightly later start, but otherwise the schedule is just as heavy.
Life is full of choices about what you can do and what you should do, and sometimes what I should do takes up a lot more time than I have.
The past few days, my eyes have been open for so long that they’re so dry. Let me begin my daily recap again.
Today I woke up, and got ready, and started on social media posts early. This gave me time to work on the train, and start some posts going.
Then I went to pick up some prints, at a printer, and then at my office. I finished up a bunch of emails that needed some personal touches, then made my way to Bras Basah to do a little more last minute purchases.
Came back to start ironing and putting things together, and kept packing all the way until 830PM.
My lunch and dinner were both really random Korean inspired dishes: Lunch as Chili Oil Shim Ramyeon, and Dinner as Kimchi Grilled Cheese sandwiches
I don’t really have the mental space to work out today, and yesterday too. But for some reason this morning I played an excellent game of chess while taking my morning poop.
That’s about it, somewhat uneventful, but my eyes have not been able to rest at all.
I did get quite lost in work yesterday, but it was also a day of meeting friends. Perhaps it would have been productive in other ways if I didn’t meet my friends, but I would have spent the time slightly aimlessly as well. At least I had the benefit of catching up with friends.
There are many paths one takes in life, and sometimes, the one we’re currently on is quite up and down. I think the path I’m on now is one where I have to run, and at the same time, the width of the path is extremely small. There are tonnes of things in the way, and I find myself getting tripped up at things coming in the way, or I am just having to squeeze past, by the skin of my teeth.
What a path.
I’m also in the middle of The Long Walk by Stephen King. It’s quite a solid book, I’m quite stuck on it. I don’t have much time to read, but I have to travel and I get through the train and busses with my books. It helps me for a bit.
The Long Walk has so many insinuations to the way life works. Its easy to see the pointlessness of many things, but what motivates us for the next stage ahead?
My motivations currently are purely to rest for a week before I have to pick up the pace again for the year end.
I have busy season very frequently. I’m trying to get something sorted, or trying to finish up work, or just having to meet a lot of people. It’s not really by choice but I guess it is.
A busy day for me would be a morning meeting, a lunch catch up, an after lunch meeting, an evening meeting, and then a night meeting after dinner. It’s a crazy pace for sure, but that’s my maximum. Add ons would be needing to produce artwork, which takes up more mental space than actual calendar time.
The past few weeks have not been as busy, but still quite. The artwork needed to produce is a lot higher, so I’ve literally cleared off my whole week for no night meetings, and yet I’m still sleeping at midnight or later. Sometimes it just takes time to sit there and work at it.
Writing everyday gives me a short 5-10 minute break to just make sense of life a little. It helps greatly.
I honestly will just space out for a period after the busy season, and I’m really quite looking forward to it. Just gonna chill out and wait a bit before planning the next month ahead. (This chill out space is gonna be at the end of October, after the art book fair.)