Today was the last day of B1 French, feels very surreal. This picture encapsulates a portion of what 2020 was i.e. the red notebook which contains all my music theory, French book and workbook, the jaw-dropping book written by Dan Brown through which sitting at home, I have travelled the whole of Florence, Italy and Japanese Proverb book that I stole? or just refuse to give back to my friend.
I am just realising the enormous change just a year can bring, it is almost as if I wasted the rest 24 years of my life. There is so much to do, so little time.
Dans un peu mots- C’est incroyable pour moi. Je n’ai jamais pense que je pourrais parler dans une langue étrangère mais.. lol
Today is 31.05.2020 and I am SUPER happy, I completed running 100kms in under 25 days and I never thought I’d ever do something like this. It is probably nothing big and very achievable for a lot of people (I think I may be borderline suffering from Imposter Syndrome, do I?!)
Screen grab from my Nike Running Club App
I love everything that comes with it, when I began, I couldn’t run more than 10s at max, today I can run for a minute and a half. Earlier this month, a km felt like a lifetime. I am just really PROUD. In order to continue making the most of time at home, in quarantine, I have decided to get fitter in other aspects, I am planning to practise some Calisthenics since I hardly have any equipment at home and Yoga. Yoga is something that I have been wanting to do for sometime now and I think it is going to compliment Calisthenics, so this is my June diary. In this month, I want to do the following things:
Run another 100kms
Meditate for 30 days straight
Complete CPC
Read India After Gandhi
Learn Guitar, a bit more
Week 1: If I were to define my week in terms of growth, it was as big as Oprah calling me in the next five minutes, negligible, yes. The first few days went in creating a workout program and well, I am sitting on the first day of the Second week and I still don’t have one, but I have successfully ruled out a couple of things. I have ran only thrice this week, although 5kms each time but still, insufficient. I haven’t been reading or meditating which is sending me down a spiral. In a nutshell, I was unproductive as hell. On the, well not brighter, but maybe glistening side, I started doing push ups and got my pull-up bar installed and I usually collapse on the ground with a loud thud after my fourth-not-even-halfway-reaching push up. Hoping for a better second week!
Week 2: Undoubtedly this week has been better than last week, I think I saw some progress in my push-ups, I studied CPC better and I ran more but it hasn’t been upto the mark. I didn’t run on Sunday and well.. today the first day of the Third week. I have been wanting to dye my hair and after I bleached my hair, my hair just didn’t pick the pink dye. I have been really off because of that and I want to find some solace at the bottom of a Nutella jar but I stopped myself on a couple of spoons of Ice-Cream, Five Star and two packets of Gems. I spent my entire Sunday, binge watching Designated Survivor and OH MY GOD! it’s so good. I have also been feeling awful for not sticking to my routine in the pas two days and I meditated for only a day. God, it is the hardest for me to meditate. Gonna get up tomorrow morning at six and go running! Hoping the third weeks catches up, I fear I will waste June 😦
Week 3: To summarise my third week, I think it is sufficient to say that I am updating my third week on the fifth day of the fourth week. I ran for five days, this week. I did push ups, although I doubt I got any progress in, I had immense progress on CPC front and I started a great book, its called the Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking, although I must point out, most of it bounces off my head but I do understand it a little bit, I find it to be one of those books which one needs to, or at least I need to read a couple of times before I understand it fully. Third week was pretty dank actually, my runs were fabulous, everything was on point.
Week 4: On the Saturday of third week something happened during my run, I felt the pain that I felt years ago. The pain of my knee cap being dislocated but I got confused, how can I have that pain without having my knee cap dislocated. I thought to myself that my knees must have a brain of their own to behave in such an erratic way and so I continued my run only to discover a pain I never felt before later that night. Excruciaiting pain, pain to the extent that I couldn’t even go to the darn washroom!
The next day was spent in envying everyone on internet whom I saw dancing in weddings or just tik-tok videos, I spent Sunday looking like a 24 year old and feeling like a 80 year old woman. I felt the pain my grand mother felt and I felt all those feelings she must have had when she saw us running around when she ended two people to just get from the couch. So Sunday was spent like a drunk melancholy person sans the intoxication. Obviously, my entire week was hella unproductive, I watched a few movies and although loved it, I watched the entire series of Bad Boys and dude, Will Smith & Martin are killing it! I ate like a pig but the last few days of the fourth week were spent focusing and making goals for July
June was good, not as productive as may but good in other ways. I feel happy. Yay. Flower Emoji.
After ramming my brains for over 3 hours I came up with this username, Where are my endorphins’, doesn’t seem like it is a work of art, does it? I challenge you to try to figure out a decent username for WordPress. I tried almost every eerie combination of nouns, verbs until I landed on this and almost immediately regretted the same, but well most of my Sunday is gone and I do not intend on making my Sunday night worse by not having completed anything substantial today.
My purpose for this blog is to bring to life a gazillion thoughts, stories and questions that cross my mind. My friends and family have been pushing me to do something like this for quite a while and well, why not?! Although I doubt I will be able to maintain this blog once quarantine is over, but I won’t know until I do it.
In a nutshell, this is a millennial, journaling.
PS: I have no clue about WordPress and I can almost see myself in future cringing over how badly this post is edited, but there’s only so much you could, T. Its alright!
Memes & Mimosas 