Alieh Kimbeng

Lately, I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed as I’ve been trying to figure out this whole worklife-balance stuff. I feel like i’m constantly on the go mentally, so I’ve been trying to take personal time and unplug. Here are 6 things I am currently doing:

I am the person who walks into a room and takes about 10-15 mins just observing people and subtly deciding who I’m gonna interact with and who could potentially be a friend. I never jump right in because I like meaningful and legit interactions which explains why most of my friendships never start up on a good note. Most first impressions I get from people is that I am stuck up, but that’s just because I am reserved and don’t jump right in, but when you get pass my stuck up, you would realize that there’s a soft cushion underneath. I can hear my friend Gaby telling me Vaneh, “You need to talk to more people, you talk to about 8 people who we went to high school with”. This is so true and while my friend may be right, the people you keep around take a lot of your energy and you take in their energy as well, so at some point I had to started asking myself if it was worth it and if that’s the type of energy that I need in my life, hence why I have a very small and tight circle.

A couple of you have probably heard this saying and some of probably not. This saying is a definition of what my life is and where it is going right now. Flash back to January, February and specifically March when I started applying to jobs, I had no concrete Idea of what I wanted to do, but I knew that I didn’t want to work in front of a computer all day, I wanted to work with people for majority of my time.

I was browsing the internet looking at other blogs for ideas/inspiration when I realize that I didn’t have a post on why I started this site in the first place.