It’s been a wild year, to say the least. 

2021 is not a year I’ll look back on with undiluted pleasure and it took a whole year just to recover from it. I suffered a few blows to the heart and it paralyzed my creativity and confidence. I couldn’t bare to pick up a pen or find joy in writing anymore. I luckily found support in the new friends I made but I simply lost myself so I decided to throw my hallow body into my new job. 

I’ll give you a little update since I’ve been away. At the end of January 2022, I began a new position working remotely as a content writer for a crypto company called TRON. I tossed myself into this new unfamiliar industry and world. 

I felt like a powerless machine that couldn’t run on its own anymore, so I had to plug myself into something to keep running. A way to keep the lights on and keep turning.

Crypto. Blockchain. DeFi. NFT. GameFi. All new words I came to discover would become a part of my everyday. It felt like I entered a tornado, a rollercoaster of learning, trial and error, highs and lows, but I was grateful to keep busy. 

My fiance also got a job working for an environmental science civil engineering company located in San Francisco in mid-March and on April 1, we moved into our new apartment in the outer Richmond district.

All of a sudden, it felt like we were on a bullet train, moving fast through life. We went from being unemployed, living in a relatively quiet neighborhood in Monterey to obtaining full-time jobs in our new fast-paced Golden City. These last 10 months feel like a blur like we jumped on a merry-go-round and we’re just finally finding our equilibrium.

It’s been nice being back in the city. The last time I resided here was in the spring of 2018 after I just graduated from SF State. I had lived in the Ingleside district for three years. The outer Richmond seems like a whole other world of difference. It’s quieter, cleaner, and a little slower. We were able to snag a great deal being close to an area called Lands End. We have a view of the ocean from our window on the third floor. We get to witness the most spectacular sunsets. I must admit, it’s been easier to breathe out here. I’ve had time to clear my head.

As the next year approaches, like many, I’ve been reflecting. I feel like I’m beginning to wake up and realize what I really want. More to come.

SSxx