DAY 17: Look back on this last year and talk about it.
I skipped a good 14 days on this meme (maybe I'll get back to it sometime, emphasis on the maybe) but considering I write about a good portion of those prompts anyway, it's no matter that I gave it up.
And so here approaches the last few days of 2010. I haven't reflected on a past year in a while; usually I'm stuck in a frenzy of changing and dreaming of the future, something that I am doing right now (of course) since I'm in the midst of a mental breakdown of "what am i doing with my future" "why do i give up on everything seemingly hard" "where am i going" & "what happened to good old life-goals-totally-set carolyn." This cycle of making and revamping the same old resolutions every year is completely pointless, so some much needed reflection is underway.
2010...
- I became way way more "Korean" so to say, which clearly had no impact on my "2nd generation" pronunciation but my eyes don't glaze over long paragraphs of Korean plus I know a lot more slang than I wish to. Not to mention a lot of society/cultural/political news, thank you CKS.
- I got a lot of mediocre grades. This is probably 50% not going to lecture, 30% laziness, and only about 20% me being stupid. Still disappointing.
- I read a lot more fashion blogs this year. Went through ring & shoe phases. Cut my hair into blunt bangs.
- I had multiple identity crises, college major & minor changes, & lots of stressing out about the future.
- I weaned myself off the internet a little. A little.
- I spent way too much money on karaoke.
- I was too uninvolved in the things I was involved in (does this even make sense?)
- I travelled alone for the first time.
- I started vacancied & blogged pretty consistently on an unread blog, albeit giving up my dead horse creative fiction writing attempts.
And that's it. An all-in-all okay year, but I'm jumping at the prospect of the new & shiny, aka 2011, but talk of the new shall come tomorrow. Here's to the last day of 2010.
photo | beverly e. ; flickr
