After analyzing my own life for the past couple of months, I realized that after a year, it has fully transformed into something completely different with what I used to have when I was in Sendai.

Not entirely a bad thing, but I do miss my online life. I miss being super involved in a fandom. I miss my own time when I was free to do whatever I want, being online for hours and hours without anyone in my real life knowing. I miss making graphics that no one really cared about, and do it just for self satisfaction.

I did remember how it was back then before I leave for Japan. I did have a lot of friends and a colorful life, I enjoyed being with my family, chatting with people, shopping with my sister and mother. And now I'm back there, I have a lot of friends in this office, I talk about anything with them and I spend a lot of time with them even after office hours and in the weekend. I'm so invested in my real life I dedicate a lot of money, time and energy for it. Hence, I have no time for online stuff anymore. Not exactly no time at all, I'm still the old internet addict that I am, and I do get myself updated with stuff regularly, but when your RL is taking over everything, it's just different. When I came home a year ago, I didn't think I could be this far from my online life, and I didn't expect the fact that me, the internet nerd could get a healthy, happy, and lively Real Life just like back then when I was in college. I thought that kind of life has passed.