I love thinking. I love introspection. Very rarely will I ever have to stress my brain thinking about things I love to think about. However I despise using my brain for anything I'd rather not do if I could. Things like maths, schoolwork, friendships, drama, etcetera. I find ways to distract myself from the topic at hand—to avoid anything I'm not comfortable with. I like to think about my interests. If it isn't related to anything I'm interested in, then I tend to just regard it as unimportant and useless. This is why school stresses me out so much; It takes so much effort to just focus and do my work. "I could be thinking about x right now" or "I still have all those threads to read" or "I wonder what x is doing right now". They're all distractions from things that I need to be doing. It's infuriating. ADHD is a unique kind of torture that is very hard to convey because people will just call you "lazy" and berate you for being unable to do something as simple as focusing and doing schoolwork for hours on end. How do people do that without their mind wandering back to places it's familiar with? It's a foreign activity I've been trying the past two years to grasp. And the procrastination. The mental gymnastics. Don't even get me started. I was supposed to get diagnosed for ADHD this holiday but I've been so lazy or invested in other matters I can't bring myself to just ask my mother. It sucks having a mother that I can't convey barely complex English and ideas to. Imagine trying to explain ADHD to her. "Oh, I just can't help myself from getting distracted." Same thing. I'll just get called "lazy" and berated.
Anyway, enough about negative things. This holiday has been a net positive atleast. Many things happened. Mainly family stuff. I reunited with my father and his side of the family after almost 4 years. Got to finally meet my two beautiful step-sisters. 5 & 3, they're adorable. I have to do everything in my power to make sure they're raised right. I love them, they're my blood. Thank God my step-mother is Catholic. That's already a really good start. I've also been trying to change my attitude towards my little brother. He's the only full sibling I have, so I have to keep him as close as possible. I used to always look down on him, or not really care for him. But he's my brother and it's my duty as an older sibling to help guide him aswell onto the right path. It's very easy to get yanked onto a path of degeneracy and sin in this secular society. He's about to enter his most important years of development, 14-16. I believe that whatever happens during this period defines your young adult life. I was lucky enough, thank God, to have not fallen into complete degeneracy after this period. It's terrifying to see how close I was. My guardian angel was working overtime I tell ya. Also, if you guys haven't already seen, I got a silver cross necklace. It's really beautiful. I've wanted one for a long time now and I think it looks very pretty. My little brother has a gold one and I think it looks terrible on him. My ex was right, gold just tends to look bad on asians.
My study has been going well, not perfect, but definitely not bad. Reached 400 words on my Core6k Anki Kanji deck. I saw an oomf of mine recently start out and he had like, 4 decks separated into multiple sub-decks. I was like, wow. You definitely don't need that much. Just use a site like djtkana and then grind out a deck and grammar guide. Overcomplicating shit just makes it harder.
Oh, I forgot to mention, my step-mother bought a fuck ton of skincare products for me because she wanted me to get into skincare, which is really nice. I've always wanted to get into it but I didn't have the time nor the money to do anything. Luckily she held my hand through it all and taught me everything I needed to know. Hopefully this all works... Smooth clean skin would probably elevate my face quite a lot...