Last Day of 30

11:11 PM

I'm turning 31 in a few hours. Not even a few hours, in 49 minutes. Actually, I was born in the Philippines, and it's 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, so I'm technically already 31 11 hours and 11 minutes ago. Well, it doesn't matter.

Last year when I posted about turning 30 on X, my post got 800+ likes. This year, I doubt I'll get anything close to that. Not that it even matters in grand scheme of things. What does receiving a lot of likes do for me except provide a quick and ephemeral ego boost? I've had posts with 20k+ likes. The only thing it lets me do is say "I've had posts with 20k+ likes." That's really all. I'm not a celebrity so I don't have any fans, and even when celebrities do post on X sometimes their posts only get 1k views too. Even celebrities can be ignored and not get much attention.

I'm glad I'm celebrating my birthday with my parents. They are cool and they love me very much. They would do anything for me and I'm glad for that. I don't think my friends in PR that I hang out with all the time, Eric, Gus, Guy, that they even know it's my birthday in an hour and that I'm turning 31. I am the oldest in the group. I don't think I've told them my birthday, nor do I remember theirs (even though I've celebrated theirs), so I guess that's fair.

Today has been a pretty standard Monday. I woke up, worked, did my brain training and vegan activism, went out and walked in the forest again, and did like 5 minutes of workout at the gym. Oh yeah, my mom and I went to a bank today too so that my name could be added to the mortgage, since she's retiring in a month or two and I would have to take the burden of paying all the mortgage and bills from now on. My mom will get some social security, not much at all but a tiny amount, so I don't understand why I have to be responsible for literally everything, all their bills and mortgage now. I'll have a chat with them tomorrow.

I felt extremely energetic and elated today, I felt like I could walk for eternity. The problem is that since I took around 40k steps the past 2 days, and 50k steps if we include the 10k steps I took today, the bottoms of my feet are starting to get sockburned from the chaffing. It's not painful when walking, but there is this sharpish pain in some parts of my feet as I walk. It's inconvenient and annoying. It makes running pretty much not possible because of that sharpish pain from layers of the bottom of my feet getting rubbed away. I have enough energy to walk for eternity, but I can't because my physical body has its limits.

I'm a mix emotions. I feel great because of everything. Yeah. Well, I can't think of any reason to be down actually. so I'm not a mix of emotions. I feel pretty great. Life is pretty good. I like where I am at currently in life. Obviously I want to do more and be more, and that will take a lot of work and discipline.

Anyway, that was my day today.