One of the advantages of being unemployed is that you are compelled, in a way, to rummage through your old stuff when spacing out and daydreaming no longer work. You take out your journal and recall what you have been doing or thinking at some points in your life.

 

Going through my journal, I have been reminded of the things that I did about a year and a half ago, when I decided to leave my first job. I was unemployed for about three weeks. Most of the time, I was left alone in my room – no PC, no books. What I had included a television that only had three or four channels, a mobile phone, a notebook, and a pen.

 

Most of those unemployment days were spent staring into space, chatting with a friend through SMS, and writing down some noteworthy messages that this friend was sending me. Thanks to him, I got myself to post a new blog entry.

 

This friend and I were talking about how poor and bored we were at that time, and what we would become in ten years. One of his memorable messages (as written on my journal) was:

 

Hehe. I know we’ll be good friends Kat. Just think about it, 60 years from now we may never fulfill our ambitions, but we can look back and be happy bout the things we enjoyed together.