Tag: Observations

Although there was much ambition to be read in the previous updates I wrote here, not much has come to fruition. After all, what a chaotic year it has been, to make any ambitions come true.
  But that is not to say you can’t do a thing during a pandemic. Somehow we (the well-off global middle-class) have become used to the idea that everything gets better, grows larger, and generates ever more returns. And when it didn’t this year, that was a shock to the expectations we had gotten used to. Suddenly we are not able to fly everywhere, go out to drink expensive coffee’s in cafes or beers in pubs and aren’t able to just do whatever we’d like. Because the pandemic limits our lifestyle you’d almost think that life is based solely on the things we are currently limited to do. Which isn’t the case.
  This all to say that during this year I have tried to set some goals or aims as a substitute to all the supposed other things that would have filled my time if there wasn’t a pandemic to live through. This to give myself a sense of purpose it seemed. But I didn’t do any of it. Which is fine. Because something isn’t only important or worthwhile when it has a seeming sense of purpose. Reading for example, or relaxing on the couch or watching a film for the second time.

This year has brought a big change in my lifestyle; We moved countries (from The United Kingdom to The Netherlands) while keeping my job at Applied. These were all unforeseen life events that we had planned to do in the future, but did not think possible in a pandemic year. And after all that, I even managed to get a new job (starting January 2021) to top it off. So there you go; ambitions are good after all – just don’t be too strict with planning them. It’ll happen when it comes to you most naturally.