onwards and upwards

Hello! I hope you all had a great first day of the month. It’s the start of a fresh new year for those of us in Japan. New school year, new job, new goals. I for one had a major change in my life; I quit my full time job just yesterday in logistics after three dedicated and committed years. Spending my first day of freedom away from the office today felt very liberating and somewhat bittersweet at the same time.

Coming to Nasushiobara, a foreign place for me three years back, was a rough challenge. I had no connections outside of the company and felt like a lamb put in the middle of the rainforest. Three years later I call this my third ( or forth?) home and love the nature I’m surrounded in. These years have provided me with experiences I could probably only have had here and for that I will be forever grateful! One thing I absolutely enjoyed was being able to work with people outside my office; from my colleagues working throughout locations in Japan to across the sea in neighboring China and further beyond in Germany. Though I often times felt stuck and isolated and more times than not anxious from the responsibilities I had, I sure will look back at this experience with pride and appreciation :)

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But I want this post to be more about my beginning more than an ending. Because from today, part 2 of my life starts. Thanks to all the support from my close ones, I finally get to start my next journey, and it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I’m happy to say that I’ll start graduate school in the UK at Oxford Brookes University starting this fall in their MA Publishing Media course. I have zero expertise in this field so I’m starting on a clean new slate, and I have no idea whether I’d be any good in publishing. There’s no guarantee that it’ll suit me, but it feels right and for that I think it’s worth the risk. I only start in the fall so until then, I'm putting my life on pause and taking a break to refresh and reenergize. Hopefully I can use this time to prepare myself and to also just wander adrift in the flow of life!

The cherry blossoms in full bloom perfectly resemble how I feel right now, carefree and present in the moment. I hope you stick around to see where life takes me.

I’m excited already just writing about it :)

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