Hello again! Or if this is your first time stumbling onto this blog, welcome. Unlike my Instagram which is mostly fashion, beauty and snapshots of my life in fashion; this blog has an added depth which is hard to share through even a carousel of ten images.
As the third anniversary of this blog crept up, I realized that it really had been a while since I had written something. And that itch was hard to get rid off until I actually sat down to type what’s been on my mind.
As the pandemic rages on, I have felt uncomfortable talking about fashion or sharing anything on social media. Yes, there is an argument that as a content creator I can provide an escape from the harsh and difficult realities that plague our everydays; but does anyone really want to talk about the newest spring trend or makeup product when everyday is a unseen fight between life and death.
In my last post, I talked about how it seems like the world was going through a quarter life crisis along with me. I wouldn’t retract my statements but in the last couple of months I would say that the quarter life crisis that was impending for me personally has yet to come. (Or maybe like I talked about in my Mindset Change video; it’s come and I didn’t even realize it)
So where have I been since my last blogpost. Well, I started a new job and to be honest, I still can’t believe that I actually get to work in the fashion industry as a full time professional. I’ve been in the industry for a while now but it still surprises me that I’ve landed here.
Right now, as I sit next to a window overlooking downtown Tokyo, I can’t help but be wonderstruck of how much life has changed but at the same time seem same in the last couple of years. In the span of four and a half years, I have gone from planning to go to law school to working in PR to now working in Merchandising and very soon moving to e-commerce. But even though my career has gone to places where I had never dreamed of (I mean let’s be honest, as a brown kid, the options are often Medicine or Law); at the core of it I am still the same person.
I still truly believe that I can sustain myself on Starbucks and Vogue, but with time I have come to the conclusion that a salad dropped into the mix as well as a proper book is a more effective method of not burning out in the next year or so. There are still many instances where I feel separated from my achievements and have the hardest time talking about them in interviews. I still believe that life has all the ingredients to turn into a cheesy romcom.
The beginning of 2021 was all about settling back into a professional routine and now that I kind of that under my belt, it’s time to focus back on writing and daydreams of someday being a writer at Vogue.