Post Party Blues

Old friends, old faces, new lines...

Everyone is stressed. Working life is draining everyone I know. Only the students are still genuinely happy. Why is this?

Are we doing the things we like? I am. I still enjoy teaching... HJ is doing his own business, in a field of his own choosing. K is doing something he wanted to do since years ago. SY is working in a field which allows her to march forward, B is working for something he has such enthusiasm for. So why are there so many lines on their faces? Why are there the same lines on mine?

We were all chilling out... Yet... So much are the same, and yet so much are different. Everyone was here in person, but not everyone are here in spirit. Where have all the laughter gone? The sense that the world is ours, that easy smile, the crappy jokes, where, where where?

How should we turn these frowns into smiles? Would you guys be the same next year? "(