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I am just sitting here thinking about how this virus shocked us into survival mode, how everything is happening so fast and we have not had the chance to sit down and really breath, and grieve all that was lost in this period. i am thinking about how when its finally gone we have to sort of start over,how we need to take a break and grieve and find ourselves and our way all over again. sending love and light to everyone who comes across this and please be kind to yourselves and each other the world is harsh enough.

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am i the only one??

am i the only one whose mind bullies them out of their plans and life?? I would wake up and make a goal list of the things i want to achieve in certain period of time and it is nice when i write them down,i can see myself achieving them and i am really confident but as soon as the time comes,i am either: 1. TOO LAZY TO START 2. I feel unprepared  3. my confidence and motivation levels are down  4. i forgot my WHY and there is no reason for me to be doing that anymore 5. my mind tells me that tasks i am  not doing are more important and i get dragged in a blackhole of unproductive anxiety but here is where it gets tricky. the GUILT that hits me later in time is unmeasurable. its like i lack a sense of urgency but i have anxiety of wasting time and of not doing things right. what is wrong with me

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community in engineering.

This feels like a first day in class when it’s my turn to introduce myself to everyone.

This year i finished my last semester in university,so I’m officially chillin, cause “Unemployed” is a bit harsh so I was looking to join some online chemical engineering communities in south Africa and around the world but mostly south Africa, where i can meet and network with people who are in the chemical engineering filed,however after my endless search I’ve made two conclusions

1. I’m searching in the wrong places 2. there are none

Chemical engineering is such a diverse,interesting and continuously developing field and i feel like it shouldn’t be reduced to just a job position or qualification, some sort of community where we can all come together is what is needed.so please if you see this and know of a platform leave a map or if you want,let’s build that community.

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Community!!!!!

WHERE DO I BEGIN. In south Africa were almost at the anniversary of the corona virus, this time last year we had freedom of mobility and options, aaaaaaaaaand everything changed,it was an uncomfortable change, a change that no one expected but had to adjust to. This change sort of changed our understanding and perspective of “community”,things that made us feel connected from being carefree around family  to the smallest thing as having encounters with strangers at the mall or shop. 2020 was in a nutshell RUBBLE,all the hopes,plans and dreams of many came crushing down, but some goodness came from that change and that is how people constructed a new sense of community. in all that the world was going through the most heartwarming thing to happen was people making do with what they had to build a new perspective of community online.