{"id":4801,"date":"2016-06-17T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2016-06-17T23:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T06:00:59","slug":"the-new-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/everyday\/the-new-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"the new status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school year is almost over! This means it&#8217;s time to do some more reflecting, hopefully in a more organized nature. Firstly, we&#8217;ll look at my NY resolutions, which are more like school goals to be fair, since most of my life is currently school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and as we can see, clearly I have not been doing very well in this regard. I don&#8217;t actually have any motivation (aside from being really darn scared of doing badly) (which is motivation in a way, I suppose, but it doesn&#8217;t really kick in until it&#8217;s much too late), and I have no ambitions yet either. I guess it is too early to know, but I should at least have something I&#8217;m interested in, right? Unfortunately I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Work effort has been fairly consistent this year, which I find pretty amazing all things considered. I mean, it&#8217;s me, and I am like&#8230; actively trying to be a nonconformist or something. Yeah, something like that. I was a weird 13-year-old. Embarrassing. As for writing and developing styles&#8230; not really either. I know I keep saying I&#8217;ll write, but I don&#8217;t. I could upload some of my school work but it&#8217;s kind of a) embarrassing, b) those topics aren&#8217;t really what I&#8217;m passionate about, and c) I don&#8217;t really want to put my work online. So it&#8217;s a dead end in this regard. But there has been improvement in some of these areas in comparison to previous years!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I am obviously avoiding one of these points because I have pretty much done the exact opposite of it (#3) and it&#8217;s kind of sad. I guess. Although I was in a pretty somber mood for most of the winter, which may have seeped into the posts then. Which would explain the hopeful but resigned tone. I was probably trying to convince myself that by not doing anything outrageous, by exhibiting self-control I would be able to have a peaceful year. Which is, of course, a true statement, but there is also a reason why I put it there in the first place, which is because I kind of expected myself to do something stupid enough in the future to warrant that kind of resolution. AKA I&#8217;m shaming myself.<\/p>\n<p>My unpredictability is predictable.<\/p>\n<p>But these are just comments on resolutions, and I rarely take it too seriously. As for other goals, however, I do not have specific ones (which is counterproductive). I wrote at the beginning of Term 3 this year that I wanted a significant achievement, but that&#8217;s pretty vague. But I guess&#8230; I&#8217;ve done alright for someone without an end goal or specific result in mind. It&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s almost provincial time, and almost summer, I guess I&#8217;ll end here with a few notes:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Don&#8217;t let a repeat of last year happen.<br \/>\n(2) Actually exhibit some self-control.<br \/>\n(3) Sleep more, preferably upwards of 5h per night.<\/p>\n<p>Until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school year is almost over! This means it&#8217;s time to do some more reflecting, hopefully in a more organized&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/everyday\/the-new-status-quo\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the new status quo<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday","category-regular-updates","excerpt","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}