Pattern (but not relevant with Badminton)

I'm starting to see a pattern here. Do you see it?

I'm only posting once in every other year. Not that I planned it.


After a couple of years being in the comfort zone at work, I had a major change in my job that started a couple months back. Or perhaps it is a minor one, depends on how you see it; This transition is getting depressing and stressful. Even when I knew that this is to be expected. Knowing it, or even expecting it, is definitely not the same as having experience it. Never have I in these few years felt such anxiety for weeks in a row, and while I put all my time into the work it doesn't mean that it will have a better result. Mindless effort does not bring result like how it used to.

Work hard, and work smart. Easy to say. I might be smart at some things, but I'm still far behind of what I need to be capable of doing. Social interaction is really not my forte. These skills are really important for my job scope, and now I really wonder how I can thrive or maybe even survive when so many others couldn't. I always assure myself that perseverance and persistency is the ultimate key to achieving any goal, and the other qualities are secondary to it. And I hope I can pull through and prove myself right, this time. But in the meanwhile, I'm relaxing myself and taking it slow just because these past weeks has really drained me out.


By the by, back to my previous topic about fantasy fictions. These past years I've been reading a lot too, and I discovered lots of great fantasy works that I really enjoy like The Night Angel Trilogy, Farseer & Tawny Man Trilogy, Mistborn Trilogy (so many trilogies), Stormlight Archive, and even the Lord of the Rings. Perhaps my reading has matured a bit, or that my reading skills improved? Because I wasn't able to finish half the first book of LOTR a few years back, but now I could finish it; LOTR seemed too dull and slow back then. And perhaps it is due to this that I find The Heroes of Olympus not as good as it used to be as the series is targeted for young adults(I'm making myself sound old) but then it might not be a fair opinion because I read the last book of the THOO series in the middle of The Night Angel, and so I was quite impatient then to finish it quickly and wasn't really enjoying every moments of the book. Now I'm taking a few days break from reading and next I think I'll go for The Wheel of Time. 14 books and averagely at 700 pages each! Such a huge project certainly require an adequate rest before it commences; It is a long long way to go.