Australia Entry #25 - February 21st, 2026 - April 6th, 2026

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March: A Month of Highs and Lows

March has definitely been a month of both highs and lows for me. I have definitely gotten lazy over the last month as at work we had a big go live for our hospital systems in New South Wales Health, so we needed to be in office while that was happening and leading up to it. I’ve also gotten lazy with cooking, with exercising, and in general with filling my week days with things to do. If I looked back, when I was alone, March was definitely a bad month where I feel like I fell backwards in the things I should be getting better at. However, when I was with people, I really enjoyed month. I got to do a fun little escape room near the end of February and then Matthew and I went on a short one day road trip to the Cathedral Ranges and the weather was really great for us. My friend Ashwin also flew in. He had taken the opportunity to go and see New Zealand and when he was flying back from a wedding in India and going right past Australia we connected and talked about whether or not he wanted to crash at my place for a weekend. We ended up doing a speed run of all the fun things around Victoria. We went to a footy game on Friday, and drove out the Great Ocean Road on Saturday, I trip I previously did with my mom over the course of three days which we did in one longer day. We also spent some time walking around the CBD and he enjoyed the tour so because of that I’m glad. I’ve remembered over the course of March how important it is to have good people in your life and to do good things for them and spend time with them. I’ve always enjoyed dog sitting for coworkers as to me it always feels like something small I can do that goes a long way for them to not have to find dog sitters. With that I’ve also tried to focus more of my time on dating, and though I’ve gone on a few first dates, there hasn’t been a second one yet. I’ve been everything from ghosted before meeting and rescheduled the morning of to ghosted after the first date and mutually leaving things at just friends. For someone who has literally traveled all across the globe and uprooted his life multiple times, it legitimately scares me that I won’t find someone to experience life with. For now, though, I am learning a lot about myself and I am hoping that even in the situations where it feels like shit to be ghosted, I have been at least leaving the world slightly better than before. A part of me wants to stop trying for a while, and to just fall back onto enjoying life in the way it was for the first year and a half out here in Australia. Going on solo road trips, going alone to the movies, going on walks on my own to random spots in town. But, the more time I dwell on the end result of that, the more I realize someone won’t just drop from the sky. I’ll just continue to traverse this emotional point of my life and exploring the deeper things about myself, from a social perspective, that I need to get better at.

Other additonal highs and lows of this month also made March a very weird month. I spent a lot of my younger years not taking care of my teeth and I had a wake up call in the middle of last year when I had two teeth removed. During March I’ve decided, regardless of the cost, it’s time to start taking my teeth very seriously. I’ve put my first payment in for Invisalign and I’ll be going through that likely through the rest of this year. It’s definitely expensive, but when sitting on the decision, I kept falling back on the point of money being to spend it, so… here goes to hoping this all goes well. The dentist also made me realize that the only way to make proper improvements is to think about these daily habits you have to do and I am going to be pushing myself to focus on cooking for the next few months. I want to document my process of learning how to properly shop for groceries without letting things go to waste. I think I am going to simply try to learn 20 breakfast dishes, 20 lunch dishes, and 20 dinnner dishes and get really good at making those twenty that I enjoy eating. I need to also fix my sleep schedule, as I find myself skipping important daily habits when I run out of time in the morning or late at night, like stretching or brushing my teeth, and we’re no longer playing around with those things anymore. My entertainment can wait until after.

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