Entry 003

From under the umbrella (27ᵗʰ April, 2025)

After being caught up with work for days, I woke up today feeling under the weather. My body felt heavy, my throat hurt, and my head was wrapped in a fog I couldn’t shake. I decided to take the day off to rest, but the thought of having been neglected my platform for the past few days kept tugging at me.

After lunch, I sat down, just to “look over a few things”, and ended up creating and designing three pages in one sitting: the About page, the Contact page, and the Submit Your Story page. It wasn’t anything glamorous, nothing fancy, but they work, and that’s what matters for now.

Working on the About page was more challenging that I had imagined. I knew what kind of platform I wanted Hparadisu to be, I could feel it so clearly, but translating that into words was a different story. I wrote, rewrote, edited, re-edited….it took the longest time among the three pages, and even now, it still needs more polishing. I’m not satisfied yet, not even close.

Time flew by without me even noticing. I wanted to push a little more, knowing the next few days will be packed again with work, a kind of work where it’s dreading to be there but can’tttt help it, because survivalhood comes first.

But my body is reminding me that rest isn’t optional, my eyes are aching, and tomorrow is another early morning.

For now, I’ll shift my focus back to work. But once that’s settled, I’ll be right back, picking up exactly where I left off.

So, I’m pressing pause here, just until I’m back on it.