Achievement (Or lack thereof)

Reflecting back on the last 8 months, I do not remember doing much apart from the usual super-exhausting WORK.  When I joined this new job, I spent the first few days learning about the system, I wasn't given much responsibility and it gave me a bit of time for myself. I was on my own in a new country and has some spare time everyday! I made some exciting plans about sports, cooking experiments, hobbies.. GIRLS! ;)  and even started working on them...

...but then the workload hit me real hard and all my spare time was gone. Suddenly I was spending almost 12 hours at work everyday and pretty much all other activities stopped. A few team mates left and work became even more stressful.

Finally in the last month or so, workload has started reducing and today, after a really long time, I managed to get away at 5PM. I reached home and suddenly realised that I do not know what to do with all this time :P I spent literally 20 minutes thinking what to do and something reminded me of this blog that I have. I haven't touched it for a long time.. not that many people read it anyway, but thought I'd write down a few things.. and surely it feels good.

Coming back to the point, in the last 8 months I have learnt a lot regarding work, gained some valuable experience.. it's definitely beneficial for my career no doubt..  but I haven't really had a social life as such. Sure, I have made some really good friends at work but outside of it there is hardly a soul in this city that I know well. Up till now this kind of thing had never bothered me but now I have started to think that there is this flaw in me that I need to overcome. I need to make an effort to meet new people and get to know them. Never thought I'd say such a thing but this lack of social interaction has started to get me worried...