work.

so. the final semester of school is about to begin in a day's time.


i will not be as busy as i was in my other semesters because i'm writing my thesis. so i'm only taking one other course to complete my requirements for graduation.


it's scary huh? how i've completed almost 20 years of education, and how i'm about to finally sorta, maybe become what "they" call ...an "adult"? i don't really want to think about it, and it's only fair to say that it's been a smooth (sort of) transition from kid-hood to adult-hood over these past 22 years. so you know, i've had more than enough time to prepare for any adult-like disaster that will (eventually) befall me in the coming years.


i am nonetheless, wary and cautious and extremely excited at the same time, for this entirely new phase in life that i am about to be in - i.e. working life - the daily grind, the hustle and bustle, the ritualistic monotony, the corporate climb....whatever you wanna call it...i just call it WORK. and it is a SCARY FOUR-LETTER WORD. scarier than love...or hate...or pain. WORK.


what is it about work that scares me? the newness of it all? well yeah, but that would eventually wear off after a while (give or take, a year or so)...it's the cyclical-ity (?!) of it all...the monotony, the repetitiveness, the idea that for the REST OF YOUR LIFE (okay the majority of it, if you consider retirement at 65...or who knows, maybe 70 in the near future)...you will be doing the same thing. over and over and over again. everyday (minus the weekends, which will pass very quickly...too quickly almost), all day, FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. yeah some of us will climb, some of us will fall...but at the end, in our own personal capacities, we're all gonna be doing the same DAMN THING...WORK. even if we change jobs (unless we change jobs weekly)...it WILL BE MONOTONOUS. that is why it is called WORK. and that is why the opposite of WORK is FUN.

because FUN = exciting, new, different, NOT monotonous.

and because WORK = opposite of fun = boring, old, same. MONOTONOUS.


see i've logically explained to you, no...i've logically deduced...why work is work and why fun is fun. and why work sucks. so there! (just in case, you know you couldn't for the life of yourself figure out why you hate your day job so much)

hahaha ok i shd really stop complaining.

it's not gonna change anything, and at the very least, if my job sucks so much...i can at least try and make some money out of it...which is what i intend to do. climb up the damn ladder, make more and more money each year....and then have no time at all to spend it...or no significant other to spend it on. then die old, unmarried and pathetic (and alone!) and then donate everything to some animal shelter through my will. YAH. THAT IS WHAT I WILL DO.

oh pity me.