Part 2

In my late teens, unfortunately, I no longer had the time or energy to write, or so I thought. Since Inesianion began I moved to Singapore to finish the last two years of high school then went back to Indonesia for six months before moving again to Melbourne for university. I am now, as expected, on an airplane. Doing something I had been putting off for years (must be something in the water). I just finished having a late lunch of fish and noodles, and I’m currently listening to Billie Eilish. From time to time I remembered what I liked to do in my early teens and wished I had wrote them down during this five year hiatus. In these five past years I am blessed to have the richest and most amazing experiences a teen can have and I wished I had kept a log of it. I so wanted to share stories of high school, university, and being an international student. That will be a story for another time. Now that I am awaiting the results of my final exams, I found myself for the first time in perhaps a decade, with nothing to do.

It was only recently that it struck me, I had actually kept a log of what happened. In my phone’s notes app and, for a brief period, in Google Docs. Sometimes, when I get a short burst of free time, I began writing on physical notebooks. But that burst passed and days turn to weeks. I wouldn’t pick them up again. I simply couldn’t write more. Weeks turn to months and I forgot about them. This went on for a while. Life gave me so much that I wanted to inscribe on rocks. But I was years behind and the task was too hard, or so I thought. This guilt was holding me back. It took me many more months, support from my incredible boyfriend…

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