School, college, uni, first few years of work and so on are the time when you meet people without effort and when there is always something happening. After those years, you really have to get off your arse and make those opportunities yourself, otherwise you find yourself on January 24th, with 24 days of the “new” year already gone and not much to show for it.

My resolution was to not let life keep passing me by. This means getting out, meeting new people, learning some new things, taking trips, studying, making the effort to meet friends rather than sit in. I would say everyone could do with this advice, nothing that dramatic, but we all spend way too much time doing f*** all. Life should be a progression towards goals, when we stop doing this, we become our parents- who we all used to think watched too much TV and were extremely un-”cool.”

Life lecture over, off to put my ideas into practice!!

I have been lazy recently, watching way too many movies and the like. Planning to join some classes and expand my circle of friends/interests. Might be good for you too- sports club, language classes for the next country you plan to visit, some kind of skills course so you can look for other work………….myself, I am going to learn Chinese.

Today’s word:

niito

Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き籠もり, Hikikomori?, lit. “pulling away, being confined”, i.e. “acute social withdrawal”) is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. The term hikikomori refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to individuals belonging to this societal group.

Hmmm. I haven’t really seeked my loneliness, it’s just been sprung upon me… being ill at the start of the year, followed by two weeks of nights means that I’ve not been as sociable as I’d liked to have been.

This will not be an issue after tomorrow, though