Hello Tomodachi’s,

It has been a while yet again, and I hope you all are doing well. I am doing pretty well if I do say so myself. I just wanted to update you all that this year, at the age of 34, I was FINALLY able to buy myself a car after all these years. Although I like walking a lot, it was about time to get myself a car. As the saying goes, “It was high time.”

I bought my car a little over a month ago, and it is my very FIRST car as an adult, even though I have been an adult for a while now. Despite that, I feel so very proud of myself. It took me a little while, but I finally did it, and I did it without putting myself into any massive debt, which I am also very proud of myself for. And it is all thanks to my perseverance.

I bought my car over from a friend of mine who immigrated to the Netherlands. I really like the car. It is nice, small and compact. Just the way I like it. I do not like big or bulky things. So, it was a perfect fit for me. I have had my license for about five years, and although I got my license way back then in the hopes of eventually driving my parents’ car at the time, nothing worked out the way I intended. My license was almost about to expire at the end of August before I was able to buy my second-hand car.

I still remember how giddy I was about buying my first car. It was the same, exact giddy feeling I felt when at 16 I watched a movie in an actual movie theatre for the very first time; And again when I published my very first poetry book about a decade ago. I was so very excited about buying this car that I could hardly contain my excitement. Though I tried to play it off coolly. As if I was not doing the Makarena dance in my head for the next two to three weeks after buying it. The only thing that gives me more anxiety than social anxiety is driving alone. Driving alone is so scary for me at times that half the time, my heart is beating like crazy in my throat, but I am doing much better these days the more I drive and get used to it all. Does anyone else get anxiety while driving? How was the process of you getting over it?

Anyway, there is only one minor issue that I have now. What do I call my precious first-time car? Does anyone have any name suggestions to give me? Give me some names to choose from, please. I want a sophisticated name, if you can think of one.

Anyway, I have to say that this year has been a mostly positive year, if I do say so myself. I am so happy about that. I can only hope it continues in this way. If only… I have already gone through too many negativities to last me a lifetime and would really love it if more positivity would grace me with its presence. Come on, now. Help a girl out! 🥹

Anyway, that is all that I wanted to update about my life so far. Additionally, I would like to add that I have started gaining more confidence in myself and leaning more into the type of person I always envisioned myself to be; I have completely changed my diet this past year because of my health conditions I spoke about some months ago and lsot quite a bit of weight; and I have tried a couple of new things I have not done before. Everything is mostly going well, I would say

In closing, I am not sure the next time I will be posting again, but you will see me around. I will eventually pop back in when the time is right. I wish you all the best, and if you are not having the best that you believe you deserve, I really hope that it will come soon. Have a great day, ya’ll!