I found my old school journal. It only had a few pages (our teacher's requirement was 2 entries per month and i kept to that minimum :) ) and most of the pages had all my mini artworks, just simple pictures and sketches like these:

I had fun with them. But those were the times when I had very little on my mind. Those were the times when I was myself - the girl who sits at the corner with pencil and paper on hand sketching away. That was high school.

Now is college. If I want that degree (and I really do) I need to use my all the time I have for studying. But then again, its been a while since I had real peace and fun.

Time slips by fast. "Live life to the fullest," they say. I want to but can't. It's the conflict of life. When you are young, you need to do your best to build a better future for yourself. Mess that up and then where would you be 10 or 20 years.

But then again, if you're too serious about all that adult stuff, you are letting the best years go by.

Have you:

-played in the rain

-made paper boats flow down a canal

-plastered your face with gooey chocolate or sticky gum

-laid down in the grass because you want to

-sing at the top of your lungs with nonsense lyrics

I can't think of a hundred things to list down right now but I think you get the idea. Whatever those things are, we can't do them when we grow into adults (unless nobody's around to see or hear you do them). Society can be strict.

How to balance work and fun to make the most of your life?

I have no idea. But please feel free to tell me if you do know the answer. ;)