So, What's Next?

Okay, so I'm finally done with a 5-week event for Fraser. It had been a long and tiring, but at the same time a fulfilling experience from which I learned something. While dragging myself home, I feel a sense of emptiness. I asked myself "So, what's next?"

I am sure many of you have this moment when you ask yourself "So, what's next?" We are constantly trying to fill up every minute of our time with activities, keeping ourselves occupied. Why is this the case? Is it because we are afraid of loneliness and boredom?

I think that this is the result of our life is filled with too many activities, especially in such a fast-paced society, so much so that we sub-consciously lost the ability to spend quality time with ourselves. We are used to constantly having activities to spice up our daily life. We need to do something, or the companion of somebody to feel at ease. Being alone, not doing anything, is something that we are not accustomed to.

I am not disagreeing with spicing up our life with interesting activities. In fact, I think we need to have that so as to keep us connected to our peers, to our society. We need to have sufficient social life in order to stay on track with this fast-paced society.

However, connecting with our peers, connecting with society is not enough. We need to connect with ourselves too. We need to constantly take a step back, look at what we have done and reflect on them. From there, we can analyse what we have done right and what we have done wrong, and thus learn from it and improve ourselves. We need a moment of loneliness, quietness, emptiness, so that we can really sit down and do some self-reflections, undisturbed. We need some time and space to converse with ourselves.

So, instead of constantly asking "So, what's next?", you may want to consider letting your mind run wild once in awhile and think back on the stuff you have done lately, try to see if you could have done it any better. You don't learn just from others, you can learn from yourself too, learn from your past mistakes.

Strike a balance. Assign sufficient time for you to connect with your peers, the society, and yourself.

Now that I'm almost done with this article. So, what's next?

-The god has spoken