Bad year for roosters

At the beginning of Chinese New Year, my mom told me that roosters (i.e. me – born 1993) will have a year of bankruptcy and injuries.

Well, roosters, we are more than halfway through the year now and I don’t know about you, but this year has not been the best for me and some of my friends.

This year, I have 2 friends that suffered pretty serious injuries that required surgeries and physio 🤕. My best friend’s apartment literally burned down 🔥. I got involved in a hit & run accident, and our smoke detector malfunctioned while we were out so my neighbours called 911 and the fire department came and broke down my door.

Cash is flowing out of my bank account quickly as we pay for deposits for our wedding vendors and I literally google “how to plan a wedding” every week. My doctor scares the shit out of me by making me do 4 PAP tests in the last 10 months because my results keep coming back as not normal.

So between all my insurance claims, long phone calls with ICBC/BCAA, bottles of wine and “maybe I have cancer” 💀, I acknowledge that I am stressed and so are a lot of people around me. It is pretty crazy that I used to be stressed about getting A grades for classes I don’t even care about like math 157 or Human Resources 101 and now I’m stressed because my door is broken so someone can just come in and rob me but I’ll probably just let them because I’ll be lying in bed thinking I have cervical cancer.

As these unfortunate incidents occur, I have been slowly trying to organize and fix my life, all the while not knowing that much. It makes me think that a lot of my academic life hasn’t prepared me for real life problems, like how to fix a door or what to do if my house burns down. It makes me think again that a lot of adulthood is just faking it till you make it.

I am sure we will all make it, it’s just the journey there isn’t always so smooth.

For anyone who is going through a difficult time, stressed out, afraid of making the wrong choice, just know that I believe you can figure it out. If someone like me can do it, I know you can too. Just be nice to yourself.

Sincerely, Loewe