The Pursuit of Happiness

It's been two years since I was here. Two years of growing up. Two years of stories worth telling. It is also when my little baby niece turns two in August.

You know what they say, the trouble twos.

Of my two year hiatus, one was filled with so much grace and joy. The other was just straight downhill.  It isn't out of self sympathy but some kind of self acknowledgment. I wasn't prepared to leave my life in Australia and to find myself living with my parents again after 3 years of freedom and independence. I found myself being told what to and not to do. I was against the idea of a gap year and got pressured into finding a job which I eventually and gradually loathe. Then there comes being an athlete who's mature enough to succeed only to have no means of support. I basically lost control of everything I've ever planned. I realised I was going into a depression, as what my dear sister pointed out worriedly.

After weeks and months of soul searching, I was finally ready to find my inner happiness as inspired by Gretchen Rubin. To feel how I felt in 2011. What was her little experiment has now become my little project - My Happiness Project. I suppose you can relate the idea to Eat, Pray, Love.

Following me on this journey, I hope this little project not only inspires me to start finding myself but also to you who face similar downfalls of any kind.