Highlights of my last revolution around the Sun
Since turning 27, life hasn't left me much time to contemplate or do some research on the half-baked ideas that I have in my head. However, life threw plenty of things my way. So I'm just going to list the highlights of my last year as I turn 28.
Some of the amazing things that happened since I turned 27:
It's been a busy year. I just want to thank everyone who has been a part of my life over the past year and everyone who took out time from their busy lives to wish me, either through text or on the phone. I love you all. It was an amazing year. Here's hoping 28 is just as amazing.
Some of the amazing things that happened since I turned 27:
- We won the Budapest Tennis Federation Championship.
- I went undefeated in singles in the spring version of the championship. Although I must also mention that I lost literally every doubles match I played except one. Overall, it was a good tournament. During the autumn round, I did lose a couple of matches, but my club, Simon Tennis Club, came first in the rankings of Budapest Tennis Federation.
- I went undefeated in singles in the spring version of the championship. Although I must also mention that I lost literally every doubles match I played except one. Overall, it was a good tournament. During the autumn round, I did lose a couple of matches, but my club, Simon Tennis Club, came first in the rankings of Budapest Tennis Federation.
- I learned Hungarian.
- It has been one of the 4 medium-term goals that I have set for myself and I've finally started with it. I have become pretty fluent by now and hope to get better in the future. Currently, I've taken a break from studying it, but I might just restart it in the summer again.
- Liverpool won the Champions League!!!!
- After a heartbreaking end to the Premier League campaign in which we lost just 1 match and yet ended up second best in the league, winning the Champions League was the thing every Liverpool supporter needed. Klopp delivered on his promise to get Liverpool a trophy and now, we're one of THE teams to beat in Europe and at home. I just hope we FINALLY win the Premier League this season.
- Attended a European wedding.
- My mates Matt and Zsuzsi got married. It was a beautiful Polish-Hungarian wedding. I'm not going to be posting any pictures from it though. I'm holding or drinking alcohol in literally every picture despite starting the evening by saying "all right now we don't want to look like alcoholics tonight" to all of Matt's mates at the wedding. Anyway, I wish both of them all the happiness in the world and a long and prosperous married life ahead.
- The Cricket World Cup happened.
- If you must know one thing about India, you should know that we're obsessed with Cricket. It's a pre-industrialization era sport invented by the British and now bossed (quite literally) by India. After Liverpool's UCL win, India's WC win would've been an icing on the cake this summer. However, we lost in the semi-finals and England finally managed to win their first World Cup title by a cat's whisker of a margin.
- I started keeping a journal.
- I jot down a couple of pages twice a week in my journal, my thoughts, mood, and feelings. It has helped me in my pursuit to be a bit more self-aware. So I'm going to keep at it.
- I had a bunch of catch-up phone conversations with my mates from the past.
- Basically people from high school, undergrad and grad school that I really like and would want to keep in touch with. Every other weekend, I text one of these people to let them know that I'll call them over the weekend. Then we sort of plan to have a call and we talk about how things are going at each other's end. There's a small albeit amazing bunch of people that I want to stay in touch with regularly like this even though we aren't in the same city or timezone at the moment. I must admit that having the ability to express feelings and emotions has to be one of my biggest failings as a human. It is something that I'm extremely terrible at. This is my way of sort of compensating for it, an indirect way of letting certain people know that they are in my thoughts and prayers.
- I began learning how to swim.
- I never knew how to swim before. Every time my parents tried to get me to go to a swimming class, I just ran to the tennis court instead. During my trip to Malta, I promised myself to learn how to swim and I started taking swimming lessons in December 2019. I am getting pretty good at it now. The aim is to not need a floaty next time I have to go snorkeling in the sea. I hope to achieve it soon.
- I figured out how to ski.
- I put this in my list of things to learn last winter but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. Although, I'm quite glad it did happen. My mates from Morgan Stanley invited me to join them for a ski-trip near Salzburg, Austria and it was easily one of the best trips I ever took. I am grateful for Hai, Vlad, Laszlo and everyone else who helped me to learn out there on the slopes. Only my bum knows how hard of a learning curve it was on the first day. However, now it's a thing that I would want to go for every year and improve and get better. I just love skiing now.
- I got inked again.
- Last but not the least, I got myself another tattoo. It's a beautiful minimalist hour-glass representative of the passage of time. It's a reminder of the limited time I have on earth, and that I should spend more of it doing things I like and I really want to do instead of spending it stuck in certain ways that I don't wish to be stuck in.
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