2017 - The Year of Self-Reflection
Hello, and welcome to 2018. The past 3 months to wrap up 2017 have been quite a struggle for me. It is no coincidence that I have not updated the blog in sometime. The transitioning darkness into the Finnish winter has brought out my deep-rooted problems and dark thoughts. It was not something I wanted or planned for, but it is something I have chosen to take in stride. Isolating myself in a new country, I pondered things I have never thought about before. My past failures with certain relationships in my life made me ask "Why?" and "What If"? I was obsessed with the heteronormative culture our society has produced and asked, why? I asked myself the deep questions of what my purpose in life after not being academically stimulated by the nature of some of the courses I have taken. I think after hitting rock bottom, it occurred to me what type of life I want to live. I want to live a life in which I question and challenge the existing ways of doing things. I want to l...