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❝Are you doing well?❞
A very simple question,
but hard to answer.
Melancholia is a collection of haiku that echoes the sentiments of the young generation today, who have silently fought hard lately in order to surviv...
I followed my dream and one day, I outgrew them. What will happen now?
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PEOPLE ALWAYS REMINDED me, ❝You have to get a degree in order to have a better future.❞ I believed them. My journey began when I gathered the courage to follow my dream—to enter the corporate world.
It has been a year since I started working in a big company, not to mention as an Executive Assistant to the CEO. Maybe I expected more than the reality. Maybe this is not what I want from the very beginning. Maybe I outgrew my dream, and I want to take another path. However, I no longer have any dreams in life.
What am I supposed to do when life is going in circles, and I am just lost in the woods with no clear path to take?
Nevertheless, surrendering is not an option for a warrior like me. Maybe I have to explore the woods in order to see the path meant for me. Maybe I have to dream again and again until I have something to follow.
❝But what if I will outgrow my new dreams again?❞ I asked no one in particular.
The voice in my head answered, ❝Then you have to dream again, and just like in the movies—a dream is a wish your heart makes.❞
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