Lately I’ve felt hyper stimulated.

My mind is racing, always thinking of ideas, next steps, opportunities I’m missing and opportunities I’ve yet to access.

If I could draw a MIND-MAP (literally a map of my mind) I’d be something quite similar to the famous Nguyễn Trãi/Nguyễn Xiển intersection. Reflecting on it now, its been a build up and I’m feeling a bit out of breath.

This internship is ending quite soon (2 months today), I’m juggling many projects at work and planning out the remainder of my time in southeast Asia to make sure I get to see as much of it as I can. I’m always thinking of one thing while doing another, yesterday I literally felt insane walking around mumbling each trivial next step: brush your teeth, shower, read this many pages, search this, go to sleep.

With a multitude of languages slapping my brain, motorbikes zooming and honking, Vietnamese coffee and green tea being downed regularly in large quantities, 9 - 5 weekends (wink, wink), growing restlessness at night  and the fear of not knowing exactly what to do past May 6th I feel my brain is begging for a slow down. The problem is I enjoy life like this save the potential burnout.

April 22nd has me anxious; here’s praying for a slowdown to truly soak in what amazing things I’ve experienced these last few months.