The Future
August 28, 2010
On the way to my potato and beef noodle dinner, I was thinking about the future. I kind of surprised myself too, after all, lately I haven’t had the time nor head space to think past the next few days in front of me, let alone my long term prospects.
Maybe this is extremely naïve of me, but I feel all set for the future. I mean, I can’t see myself wanting to change my current scenario very much. Given it’s a bit rough now, the following 10 months ought to be rather comfortable. I live well on my own, I have a comfortable salary and a great relationship with my girlfriend, I love my apartment, and I have more than enough time to continue playing and writing about games as well as maintaining my other hobbies. I find that this environment and my job is very challenging and satisfying, but at the same time I can also limit that challenge if I wish. Otherwise, as I become more acclimatised to China and my work, day-to-day life will only become progressively easier. Also, I haven’t even began to scratch the surface of what this place has to offer. Lately, I’ve remained focused on my writing, since going out is too tiresome after more than 8hrs of straight labour, but soon enough I’ll have time to practice my Chinese out of class and with people my own age.
When I was a teenager, I concluded that if in the future I could work a satisfying, but not overly demanding job and have sufficient time to maintain my enthusiast interests, then there would be nothing else in life that I need. I am more or less on the road to realising this future and I’m only 21. Theoretically, I could keep this job going until I retire, become a senior teacher or whatever, have my hours reduced and my pay increased. Not a bad deal.
Besides rounding up some more games and seeing the family, I also don’t think much of a reason to go home either. A quick glance on Facebook always verifies the reasons why I didn’t want to stick around. If I was in Australia, I figure that everything would be more difficult. Living costs would be expensive, I’d have to drive a car everywhere, cook my own food and I’d have a smaller net of potential jobs. I’d have less interesting friends, be speaking English all the time and be wallowing in regressional modern society.
So long as I continue my relationship with 女神, I know that it will be roughly another 2 years before I can leave and come back. Assuming, that is, I am still with her and want to move back to Shanghai. I guess I’m pretty fortunate then that I’m so relaxed here.
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