UNTIL NEXT YEAR.

It's only about two weeks left before the year is over. Before I start to make it seem like it's just tomorrow, the Christmas celebration is in sight, as you already know.

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The air already smells different; a mix of dust and burning wood. I've always loved that small. My nostrils feel very dry, my skin too. I really enjoy how the atmosphere during this period always is. It's relaxing and different in an exciting way.

As the year is almost brought to a close, I understand that certain things I hoped to do and/or had done in time past have no place in the remaining days in this year. There are, as an instance, certain goals I may not be able to meet , and trust me, that's fine. Although I give myself a time range within which to get things done, still, if I am unable to, I move them to some other time. In this case, it's a rollover. I can't deal with pressure and never do I put pressure on myself. December is not the deadline to get things done. Everything works at a place I choose.

Of the things I would not be doing anymore in this year, one which is prominent but which looms ahead is study. Yes, study! Novels are an exemption in this case. I still have to finish up my current read and maybe, just maybe, begin a new one before I call it a year.

Study here refers to course materials, cademic books, research works and any other study material which would requires hundred percent attention and mental strength. This year was a marathon for me as regards those; short time for sleep and rest, alarms ringing at the hour, tests, exams and all of that. It was so much of a great relief when I got a break. And so ever since I returned home from school for the holiday, I have made it a point of duty to keep those at arm's length.

Don't get this wrong, I like to study. But this year, after so long, I had to deal with back-to-back reading at a stretch. For long months. They were almost overwhelming added to how unsteady and rattling my general affairs were.

I have a few materials I should study in preparation for the coming session but I am not just in the right state to go down that path. Especially not during this period. It's all about relaxing very much in preparation of what is to come. I already have an idea of what school work will be like beginning January and it's...well, I'd rather not say. But then, in this few days left before resumption, all I want to do is to rest enough and not task my brain too much so it'll not be all clogged up, rather, it'll be all concerted and pumped up enough to take in completely what it should. You get that, right?

You can tell I wouldn't want to try, and so, gladly, studying will not be featured as part of my activities this year again.

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