It’s over

Another page in the chapters of my life (oh for crying out loud, how cliche is that start)….

I shall begin again.

The Games are finally over. I started losing count of dates and days 6-8 weeks before the start of the Games. Weekdays and weekends melded into just merely “days”, I forgot that I actually see the sun when I get into work. The Games started with nary a thing going right, I started by stressing in the command centre.  I think I got sucked into the microscopic view of things, but if I didn’t do it, who else would. Then again, I had quite good company in the form of interns, in the 2 weeks of pre-Games suffering.

I checked into my new home, a hotel room, and left the room after 1.5 hours of sleep for more work. 2 days later, checked into another hotel room and managed to actually sleep, eat and function slightly better.

It’s been a tremendous 6 months. I learnt a lot: about how work can crawl when people refuse to talk to each other simply because they don’t like each other, how it sucks to be both the messenger and the middle person (my favourite phrase at that point was ” don’t burn the messenger”), how building relationships with people beyond talking about work can really help in every way possible, I suck at planning, I get a headache when the realisation hit me that I suck at planning, just cos someone’s at the top doesn’t mean they are actually capable (it baffles me as to how they got up there in the first place).

I got back to work this week and wondered about what I was supposed to be doing, spent a good part of the 1st 2 days collecting stuff from people and talking and talking and basically not doing work. So now that it’s officially over, I’ve grown older (i think more wrinkles, and my face has aged, hello facials), realised my physical limitations, wondering what’s next, thinking about my holiday destination (s), took many photos of my niece (she’s uber cute!). It feels like I’m back to square 1, wondering what I’m going to be doing. Although I learnt a lot, also felt that I didn’t learn either (nothing exceptionally new), I really dislike how work overwhelmed and took over and how far I drew away from God. So now that I have time to breathe, and think, I need to reorder my priorities and most importantly read and PRAY.

To end off, baby Taby!

I think I scared her….. hehe….