2017: I learnt to be proud of myself

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I woke up finding multiple reasons to be annoyed on the very last day of 2017. My mom left her alarm on and disturbed my sleep; when I gave up sleeping and checked my phone instead, I did not see a message I was expecting… just to name a couple. These triggered an onslaught of negative thoughts, more reasons to feel discontent.

I was ready to have a bad end to this year, but then I surprised myself.

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How do we know this is the right place to stay?

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Part of reclaiming your life is knowing what you want to do with it professionally. And never have I thought that in my early twenties, I would be faced with the question, ‘Do you see yourself playing an integral part in this company’s growth in the next five years?’.

In other words, if I’m interested in being in it for the long haul, going more into the management side and helping run the company. Just between you and me, that is not the question that we millennials should be grappling with so early in life, right?

Wrong.

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Into the Marsh: Off we go!

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So, you’ve made your way into the marsh. Welcome!

I made ‘Into the Marsh’ as a memoir of how I continuously try to reclaim my life. And paid quite a hefty sum to secure the domain to cut short any excuse I may have to put it off. “You pay in US dollar every year for this website; you’d better quit lazying around and do something with it!”

You might ask, then, why do I need to reclaim my life? And perhaps, are you in need of doing exactly the same?

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