Wanting to own less also got me wanting to try to lessen my consumption of unnecessary and non-reusable/non-recyclable products. One way to do that is to cut down anything disposable. Here are the steps I have taken so far.
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I’ve been wanting to work on one category per day for this minimalism project of mine. It proved to be a gargantuan task. Some days I just really don’t feel like it, other days I feel like plunging into work preparations. That Saturday night, however, was an opportunity to clean up I did not pass up.
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Ideally, it would have been best to board a flight from Manila to El Nido since we were arriving in Manila from Bangkok. However, the fare from Manila to the idyllic island(s) of El Nido were at rocket-high 15,000 Php!
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With my black suitcase and trusty old red backpack ready, I’m set to take on a new adventure to my first ever trip to an Asian country – Thailand! To add more excitement to that, I would be travelling with my best friend of more than a decade, Kat, to support and witness her first ever participation to an international conference. But that’s not all! I was also set to meet B after four long months!
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No, I wouldn’t be spending winter in Lithuania as I planned and as I thought and saw myself doing. No, I wouldn't be learning Lithuanian and discovering its culture, its people, its food, its places... No, the time is not now...
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I don’t regret the effort and time I spent trying to make it work. I would have regretted if I didn’t at least try to make it work. I am, however, regretting something that is yet to happen, or rather, something that is not going to happen.
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Two weeks before going back to the Philippines, I found myself packing two years’ worth of stuff - or junk. I did and redid my packing countless of times and I still couldn’t fit everything in my 30kg luggage.
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I defended my master’s thesis in plain house clothes, my friends and family around me and late night food waiting for me.
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Lea flew in last Friday to Manila from Singapore. I met her at the domestic airport early that afternoon. We were bumped into an earlier flight. We were set to go to the island of Coron in Palawan!
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Much is still left to discover, learn, know and resolve. For now, I continue to live as I am expected to, not as I may want it to.
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Today’s my last day of internship. Since my last update, evidently, a lot of things has happened. Put in a large dose of self-doubt, too. There were better days, though. How do I get all these feelings and emotions I’ve got all over the place in one writing? I guess I can’t. Here’s a ridiculous attempt.
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This month was a rough one. I often go about how bumpy the road is but I think this one day in April was the toughest of the tough. It felt like all my issues, big and small, in my entire life rolled into one ticking bomb that suddenly exploded one Tuesday morning.
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