It’s already end of January, so I guess it’s too late to say happy new year, but I’ll say it anyway.  Happy New Year!!  YAY!!  Haha.  One thing I hate about getting older is I feel like as I get older and older the time seems to go faster than when I was younger.  And sometimes, I can’t get over this feeling of not really accomplishing anything meaningful while the numerical part of my age just increases by one every year.

But in the midst of all this, I’m excited to put an end to 2013 and look forward for the year of 2014, hoping and praying that I’ll be able to live more faithful life as a daughter and woman of God.

2013:  wow, I honestly don’t know where to start.  So many things happened during this past year.  First, I was able to finish my dreadful three months of training for my job in the middle of nowhere (Missouri and Iowa).  I learned a lot and met new people who are nice and well-suit for my personality, but that three months when I was away from home and everyone else, that was the first time I actually felt lonely in my entire life.  After coming back, it was just crazy and chaotic because travelling for work came along and I had to make multiple trips to different locations in United States to support launching my first vehicle that I participated ever since I started working in the automotive industry.  With that came a lot of accomplishments as well as failure, especially those times when I pushed God away from my life because of my extensive work schedule.  Towards the end of the year, things have gotten better because everything started slowing down and I took three weeks off for personal vacation to Korea and back home in Nevada.

2014:  the main thing that I’m looking forward to this year is to look for other career paths and opportunities.  Working for a big corporation and climbing up the corporate ladder may sound cool and glamorous, but I want to look for other opportunities because this career that I currently have is definitely making me be away from God by taking my time and resources.  I know for a fact that switching jobs might not make my day better at work, but at least I want to move on to something else that is closer and more accessible to where I live, so I can devote more of my time and energy in God and in serving the community.  Another big thing that I’m looking forward to this year is start preparing myself into going to graduate school.  I haven’t decided where to apply or which discipline to go into, but I’m looking forward to praying and seeking God regarding my future plans to see where I’ll be in the near future.

Technically, my two-year commitment to stay in Ann Arbor post graduation ends in the summer of this year, 2014, and honestly, I can’t help but to think how I’m so excited to get out of this city of Ann Arbor and start my life fresh somewhere else.  But the main difference between the person who made this commitment two years ago vs. the person whose commitment is approaching the end is if God tells me to stay behind in Ann Arbor for more time, the person who made the commitment two years ago would say “Absolutely not”, while the person whose commitment is approaching the end will say “I honestly don’t like that God, but I’ll start following your vision by starting to pray and consider the option of staying behind”.