I've done countless overrated things (all of which are sprung out from random surge of emotions), so why not add on to the list this long ass year-end post.

I expected nothing out of the ordinary for my 2022. Hell, I didn't have any of that "2022, please be my year." I wanted to move through life without the pressure of achieving things on a specific timeline. And yet, the universe, I believe had planned this well for me.

My 2022 started with the aftermath of the typhoon that struck my city. No water, no electricity. Resilience, a term to which I call as "a sugar coated term for forced to endure", was the only thing I could say to describe how we survived that momentous incident in my life. Recognizing that I am still one of the few lucky ones despite the tragedy, I volunteered to join a relief operation under the volunteer campaign team of Leni Robredo in Cebu City. That was in January.

Gleaming with hope as I practice my suffrage in the May elections, it broke my heart when my presidential bet didn't win the race. But as former VP Leni Robredo said "we are only just beginning" so losing hope was kind of out of the equation.

Continued to carve my own journey towards self-discovery and self-improvement, after a week's worth of travelling in Manila and Tagaytay, I have started my first face to face classes. To juggle my life in the corporate and academe setting was, quite frankly, physically exhausting, but... to say it was wholistically rewarding is an understatement. While it is quite draining to be at two places everyday, being an accountant by day, teaching by night, and towards the end of the semester, reading and criticizing a few research papers here and there, I must say everything that I got going on nurtured me into a very different person to who I was a year ago. And this whole other person is definitely a much much better version of me. I know I probably have said this a million more times in the past, but I swear I feel like everyday I become more of a person I have always wanted to be, and I'm crediting all these pieces of me to all the people in my life right now.

In between 2022, my college friends and I went to finally travel out of Cebu and experience the Manila traffic, and Tagaytay's cold weather and picturesque view. During my birthday, I ticked off one of the many things on my bucketlist and that is to go clubbing for my birthday.

Towards the end of the year, I ventured on to something I never would have thought that I would ever do in my life. I was never huge fan of beauty pageants. Yes, I do watch it, since my best friend is kind of a connoisseur. Anyway, despite all of it, I was somehow convinced to join a beauty pageant for a cause. It was a fundraising event for the PICPA Cebu scholars. It was definitely a momentous way to end what was already a good year.

I have become more passionate about the things I want to be, and the things I want out of the life that I am living. All of these are due to the countless of times I was discouraged by the very life I am trying to live through. However, I have endured all criticisms and patronizing because of  the things I have gone through in the past, and I'm always going to be grateful for all of it - all of the good and the bad.

Next year, I hope to revive the podcast and to continue to blog, whilst juggling a full and parttime job.

Whew! What a life I lead, eh? 😅