30 Days Journal - Day 13

I am a terrible journal-er. As an exercise to become better, I decided to do a 30 day journal challenge for myself. Just like during my quarantine, I am using Isolation Journals for daily journal prompt.

Prompt: What do you hope to carry forward from the quarantine? It need not be as concrete as reading or planning menus or painting. Sometimes the intangible is the most real.

I think it was a great to actually spending time by myself. I think during my MBA days I had a serious case of FOMO and would try to get involved with everything I can. My schedules were packed and I would try to hangout with my friends as much as possible. It didn’t leave a lot of time to think and reflect and work on my self personally. I lost touch with a lot of my own feelings. I didn’t listen to my body or my mind of what it needed. It wasn’t until the quarantine, when I spent majority of time by myself I get to work on myself. I had a clearer view of what I really want. That sometimes when I settle to the situation that I was in was not actually okay with, and would talk myself into. However, luckily I am good at setting up a time limit. If this doesn’t work in X time, then I would seek something else. It has give me many changes over since the beginning of 2020. This year has taught me how unreliable plans can be and that just living life on a momentum is not going to be sustainable. As lock-down start to ease and we are settling down to the new reality in our lives, I hope to carryforward these learnings I had and continue to walk down the path that gives me the most joy.