Concluding 2022, December's Archive
Traveling and re-connecting with family, friendships and New Year's resolutions
Taking a break.
The month of December for most, if not all of us, tends to encapsulate a short winter break. This may be spent re-connecting with family, or friends, and overall taking a step away from your desk. For my winter break, this is what I had in mine. And felt this is what I accomplished. First, I was able to track back to Manali and Mohali, India - meet the many relatives, even those I hadn’t seen in five years and more - and spend time ‘healing’ myself for January.
Any form of ‘work’ was not in my mind at all. I reached home on a weekend, which was a perfect timing, as it gave me plenty of rest days, before my thrive to organise began.
December holds many events - celebrating Christmas and New Years, would be amongst them. This year’s World Cup had pushed me to sleep 2 hours after than expected; thanks to all those penalties. However, it was one of the most enjoyable matches in the past few years, and this is coming from someone who is not quite familiar with everything.
Evaluating friendships
Alongside family, I had the chance to finally meeting old friends. Of course, without the distract of an exam just the next week. During the TKS Global Sessions (where all students from all cohorts, whether virtual or in-person met), we discussed friendships; amongst the numerous other things. We even got onto creating our own short podcasts and doing lip-syncs.
This model of evaluating friendships particularly stuck out to me. So very much, that I had to keep on going back to it. Are my friendships meaningful?
Now, I will not stop being friends with someone because of a simple model, or in this case a technical acrostic poem - but, this had to be seen. I did not realise most of my friends were a mix of soul and fun. There are cases of incidental and networking often too. It is now up to me to figure out how all these different types of friends differentiate from each other.
Just like everyone else - New Year’s Resolutions
Or more so goals. Or more so aims. Resolutions = goals = aims.
There is no other way to put it. I will be focusing on engaging and networking, particularly outside of school, TKS and clubs. I want to be able to meet people in professional scenarios. For example, mentors or speakers at events. To put it in numbers, I want to attend at least 3 events every quarter of the year.
Another goal I am pursuing is embracing my culture. I want to acknowledge the festivals and be a part of them more often. I feel this would play a major factor in my growth as a person, in a manner, where my ideologies contribute to my mindset. I have no way I wish to ‘measure’ this. I trust that I will be able to celebrate all festivals, go to prayers and discuss more with family every month.
The final goal of mine is to go complete everything in a 10X mindset. This would assist me in practically every aspect of my life. I have to set high-standards, in order to achieve the slightest that I imagine. I will give in 100% of my efforts, in order to achieve and sustain the best results. My main reason to adapting this mindset is because I prefer if my potential does not go waste, until I discover it myself.
What you have done is nothing compared to what you can do.
Currently…
Reading ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalanithi
Listening to the The Economist on Spotify
Ending off with a photo of an extremely ancient newspaper found in my grandfather’s closet. I wonder what times in the past were like.
